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To: miraje who wrote (33995)	11/15/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Off topic, but not much further off than many posts today. Do you really want to see .com change to .gov down the road? Kinda got me thinking about Ada. We all know about Ada, don't we: The 'official' computer language; the one with the government's blessing; the one which will replace all existing computer languages in the next few years. For those who don't know about Ada, about a decade ago the government decided that all software the government uses would be coded in this language. It seemed like everyone with access to a sounding board proclaimed that not only would all government software use this computer language, but all other software would use it too, since the entire industry would fall in line with the prevailing momentum. This all took place before the widespread popularity of C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, HTML and most other computer languages in use today. Cheers, PW. P.S. Ada was named after Ada, a countess who wrote what was popularly known as the first computer program, a few centuries ago. (Her hardware platform was mechanical.)

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