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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:04:05 -0700 (PDT), rurpy--- via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> declaimed the following:

>I also doubt there were more programming languages around in the
>1970s than now, on the grounds that there were far fewer people
>capable of writing a compiler or interpreter in those days, and 
>there were far fewer tools to help, or easily accessible knowledge 
>about how to do do it.

	Yet there were enough assorted semi-specialized languages in use on
military programs to induce the DoD to run the competition for a singular
language -- which became Ada.
-- 
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