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: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/09 Message-ID: <32D51BC8.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 208724824 references: <32CCE4ED.6A21@online.no> <5ajo99$khu@panix.com> <32ce7009.280817694@news.zip.com.au> <32D0CA27.44C2@ghgcorp.com> <5aueuv$sm0@uni.library.ucla.edu> <32D3FCB3.7B05@lmtas.lmco.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1997-01-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > Ken writes > > "Actually, back with Ada was a MIL-STD, there was a requirement to review > it > every _five_ years for updates. As I recall, no one wanted to do an > update > on the first cycle, in order to give implementations a chance to mature. > The > second cycle ended with Ada 95." > > (Ken can you keep your lines from folding, makes it hard to read your posts) In particular, when your newsposter automaticly wraps text for you, you really have no choice but to let it. Trying to terminate lines manually will just lead to tough to read text. But its a damn tough habit to get out of, once you are used to hitting that return key at the end of the line. > This is rewriting history. Ada was standardized in 1983, and it is > definitely NOT the case that no one thought about a revision till > 1993. On the contrary, what happened is that people *did* start > thinking about a revision in the time period consistent with the five Does that mean that they ALSO started thinking about the revision again in 1993, even though the Ada 95 effort was well underway? ;-) -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.lmco.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |