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Date: 13 Feb 93 00:00:42 GMT
From: wdl39!mab@ford-wdl1.arpa  (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: ANSI vs ISO?
Message-ID: <1993Feb13.000042.9880@wdl.loral.com>
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In article <9302121059.aa23673@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kanderso@mabillon.ICS.UCI.EDU
 (Kenneth Anderson) writes:
>In a lecture that I gave on learning Ada, I started out by giving the
>students a history of Ada. I talked about the Strawman, Tinman, and
>Steelman documents.  I talked about the four teams, and how "Green" eventually
>won on May 2, 1979.  I then said that it became an ANSI standard in January
>1983 and an ISO standard in 1987.
>
>One of my students then asked, "What's the difference between the two
>standards and why did it take four years in between?"

1) There is no difference except cover garbage.
2) Politics.

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Mark Biggar
mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com