From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T12:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

John W. Kennedy wrote:
> Rich Morin wrote:
>> At 1:56 PM +0900 10/11/06, Hal Fulton wrote:
>>> And let's not mention COBOL.
>>
>> Although COBOL is not my favorite tool, I don't know of
>> any arguably superior replacements for it (all things
>> considered) in the environments where it is used.
> 
> PL/I and Ada '95. 

PL/I was intended to replace both Fortran and COBOL. In fact it did
neither. Is PL/I even still in use today? I don't recall seeing an open
source PL/I compiler.

Ada, on the other hand, was intended to be a language for managing large
projects. I think it was a beautiful design, as far as I know it is
still in use today, and there is in fact an open source compiler.

So ... one out of two ain't bad, eh?