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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b7857cb3cbabcf8d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b7857cb3cbabcf8d X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,b7857cb3cbabcf8d X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b7857cb3cbabcf8d X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,b7857cb3cbabcf8d X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: Dave Wood Subject: Re: Ada News Brief Date: 1996/10/26 Message-ID: <32716EA6.4B35@thomsoft.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 192118480 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: wood2 references: <533utt$43p@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <1996Oct15.160047.1@eisner> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Thomson Software Products mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article , dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > > Keith said > > > > > ObjectAda > > >for Windows includes the full Ada 95 core language and will > > >compile all Ada 83 code without changes, according to the > > >company. > > > > "I'm not sure where this statement came from, but it's not quite correct. > > As I read it, it came from a press release, so expectations should be low. > Er, well, rest assured that 'the company' made no such claim. The actual press release contained some suitable adjective, like "virtually", which somehow was dropped by the press. But hey, if they're going to screw up our press releases, I'm glad it's in our favor. (At least they didn't say: ObjectAda includes the full Ada 95 core language and will compile no Ada 83 code without changes...) -- Dave Wood -- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows -- Thomson Software Products -- http://www.thomsoft.com