From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!indetech!cirrus!dhesi From: dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Pascal Subset of Ada (was: Why Ada is Failing Socially) Message-ID: <1991Jun25.231350.22964@cirrus.com> Date: 25 Jun 91 23:13:50 GMT References: <1991Jun25.022849.18078@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@cirrus.com Distribution: comp.lang.ada Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. List-Id: 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 UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi