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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:50:32 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
>> Le Thu, 27 May 2010 08:49:23 +0200, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> a écrit:
>>> Actually, the reason why the ISO standard is 4 years older than the ANSI
>>> standard is that it had to wait for the french translation.
>> Does it have something to deal with the AFNOR ? (Association française
>> de normalisation, i.e. French office of normalization).
> Yes, it is the official AFNOR/EN standard.
> 
>> Why is french so much important with international standards ? I've
>> already noted, from long ago, the Unicode standard gives an as good
>> place to french as it gives english.
> 
> ISO has three official languages: English, French and Russian. At that
> time, a standard had to be published in two of these languages. Given
> that the English version had been written by French people sponsored by
> the US DoD, Russian was rapidly dismissed...

Nevertheless, in 1988 Ada was published as a USSR state standard (ГОСТ
27831-88). In the same year an ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A translation was published
without a reference to either ГОСТ or ISO.

Funny. I don't have the ГОСТ 27831-88, but suppose it is an independent
translation. In the late USSR there existed several competing departments
responsible for hardware and software... A triumph of planned economy, as
one could say. (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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