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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE,
	MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.oz.au!ok
From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: (none)
Summary: This is Usenet, we pick nits
Message-ID: <2007@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 4 Sep 89 01:43:50 GMT
References: <8909022213.AA06286@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <8909022213.AA06286@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>, cdonalds@AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU writes:
:           The year  1990 marks  the start of a new decade and the end of 
:           one in which  the Ada  language came  of age,  in  terms  of  use  
:           and acceptability. What  better time  to reflect on the 
:           experiences of Ada users  throughout that  time and  to look to 
:           the future in the light of that experience.

Ahem.  1990 is the LAST year of the decade 1981-1990.
Just as 2000 will be the LAST year of this century and millenium,
not the first year of the next.

If ADA.people get such blatant off-by-one errors in their specs,
can their code be any better?  [ponderous humour]