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Re: C vs. FORTRAN (was C official DOD langauge?)

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From: Jeff Mantei
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 1990 22:47
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nelan@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (George Nelan) writes:
>In article <4574@castle.ed.ac.uk>, nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>| In article <915@gistdev.gist.com>, flint@gistdev (Flint Pellett) writes:
>| >  	<C vs. Fortran stuff>
>| 
>| I believe I once saw mention of a third computer programming language.
>| One which wasn't C, and wasn't FORTRAN either.
>| 
>So, can you provide any pointers to this alleged third computer programming
>language?  Also, does it have higher-order functions?

I believe he was just talking about 'Ada'.  (Relating to DoD standards.)

Just a guess...			Jeff Mantei		mantei@cs.uiuc.edu
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