[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>Ada95 is a much bigger language than Ada83.

And Ada83 was enormous.
We had a Data General at gatech which could handle about 50 simultaneous 
Pascal compiles, or one Ada compile.

>And as with other language that got redesigned then
>I believe that such a redesign is not as clean as it
>would have been if it had been done so from the beginning.

It was the PL/1 of the 1980s.  So big that everyone programmed in a
subset and so nobody could read anyone else's code...
--scott
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