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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of.
Date: 15 Sep 1994 09:30:46 -0400
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Mike Ryer points out that the Ada mandate perhaps encouraged too many
basic technologies to be developed, and guesses that with no mandate,
there might have been a smaller more reasonable number. I am afraid
that number might well have been zero (consider as an example Algol-68 or
many other languages designed since then).