what is ADA and what is FORTRAN?

[Phil Edwards]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:58:37PM +0800, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> I see that GCC has a frontend for both of them but what are they and what 
> are they used for?

They are famous and useful programming languages.  You learn about them
either in school or from Google.

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