Re: A Pascal Subset of Ada (was: Why Ada is Failing Socially)

[dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi)]

In <1991Jun25.022849.18078@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll) writes:

>One of the biggest mistakes of AJPO (or whoever made the decision) was to
>disallow Ada subsets.  I think they should have allowed ONE subset, 
>corresponding roughly to Pascal...

In fact the AJPO did not disallow subsets of Ada.  They only disallowed
such subsets from being sold under the name "Ada".  They did not
disallow any subset of Ada from being called "PL/17" or "Modula-5" or
even "ASOA" ("a subset of Ada").

The only restriction imposed by AJPO at that time was that if you
called a language "Ada" (registered trade mark), you had to make sure
it *was* Ada, through either a certification procedure, or by having
gone through a certification procedure, or by making a statement that
you were *intending* to undergo the certification procedure.  Even that
mild restriction was eliminated a couple of years ago.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.COM>
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