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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
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- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 03:31:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.014133.13806@ra.msstate.edu> chambles@whale.st.usm.edu (John William Chambless) writes:
- > I wasn't so much bashing ADA as the idea of a "general purpose" language.
- > The first attempt at a GPL was COBOL, which turned out to be great for
- > some uses, awful for others.
- Ada nor Cobol are "general purpose" languages. Ada is especially targetted
- at embedded systems. Cobol is a business oriented language (the BO in the
- acronym gives an hint).
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