[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

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In article <kegcsp$nke$3 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2013-02-01, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> In article <an0jjrFduj7U1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>
>>>I've seen more comments in COBOL than in Ada.  Does that make COBOL a
>>>better language for writing an F16 Flight Control System?
>>
>> Does that make Ada a better language for writing a financial application?
>>  
>
>Actually, Ada probably _is_ a better language than COBOL for writing
>financial applications. :-)

But find an accountant that knows Ada. :)

Last time I used Ada was when working for GE AstroSpace/NASA on the Mars
Observer.  I didn't mind it.  What was frightening were the many people 
employed for this project that did NOT know Ada and, equally frightening,
they couldn't even program their way to the loo!  Nothing new, I suppose.
I saw the same when working a Navy contract.

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