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 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,474d28ddf953b3c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-11 13:08:56 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!das-news2.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!progers From: progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Pat Rogers) Subject: Re: Ada 95 is the name Message-ID: <1994Dec11.150548.1947@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: SBS Engineering, Inc. References: <1994Dec9.173347.18649@sei.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 15:05:48 EST Date: 1994-12-11T15:05:48-05:00 List-Id: In article ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net (Jean D. Ichbiah) writes: > progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Pat Rogers) writes: > >>Out of curiosity more than anything else, won't it just be called "Ada"? >>Then, when wanting to refer to what used to be Ada, we'll say Ada83/7 ... > >>pat > > There is no such thing as "Ada83/7": I wrote the manual and you can > read it : The language published in 1983 is called "Ada". And now, Oh. Thank you. Perhaps I should get around to reading that. I did read the Rationale, though. I especially liked your tasking-based disk head scheduler as an example of real-time programming. >as you read, the new language is called "Ada 95". Tucker's post didn't have the quotes around it. I'm still wondering if that is literally (no pun intended, honest) the new name. > > >Jean D. Ichbiah > Ah, the fond memories this brings back... -- Pat Rogers, Team Ada progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu