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Hans Forbrich <news.hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message news:<OAE4d.77334$KU5.20333_at_edtnps89>...
> Joel Garry wrote:
>
> > Ada: Wasn't that a language that the US government standardized on to
> > replace COBOL and everything else? Didn't that go over like a Lead
> > Zeppelin?
>
> Yup. And iirc, the language that provides the syntax [and ecumenical basis]
> for PL/SQL. <g>
>
> /Hans
A faq, of course: http://www.orafaq.com/articles/archives/2003_11.htm
http://www.cs.fit.edu/~ryan/ada/ada-hist.html says PL/1 among others could have been a good starting point for ada, although http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~jeffw/misc-crap/unix-history/perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/lang/history.html#04 recognizes the primacy of (drum roll, please) pascal :)
The wikipedia entries are pretty informative, too.
jg
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