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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Ada 83 - Sometimes still chosen
Date: 1999/03/26
Date: 1999-03-26T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36fbe743.5372929@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7dgm56$2c4@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com

>If they fail to specify the 
> version of Ada...
If an elementary school student asks you "is the moon round" the
appropriate answer is "yes".  But if a spacecraft designer asks you
the same question, the answer is something like "approximately, but
with such and such deviations".  To answer a question it really is
necessary to make some assumptions about where the questioner is
coming from.  Assuming they are simply too stupid to have looked in
the Ada 95 LRM may not be an appropriate assumption, though teachers
of beginning programming may be biased toward that assumption.




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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-24  0:00 Calculating SQRT in ADA cmcrae
1999-03-23  0:00 ` Chris Morgan
     [not found]   ` <36F913E0.75F51763@lmco.com>
1999-03-24  0:00     ` John Herro
1999-03-24  0:00       ` Hans Marqvardsen
     [not found]         ` <36FAA3DF.42C31CF@lmco.com>
1999-03-26  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1999-03-25  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25  0:00         ` John Herro
1999-03-24  0:00           ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-25  0:00             ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-25  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-03-26  0:00             ` Calculating SQRT in Ada John Herro
1999-03-26  0:00               ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-26  0:00                 ` John Herro
1999-03-25  0:00           ` Calculating SQRT in ADA robert_dewar
1999-03-25  0:00             ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-26  0:00               ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1999-03-26  0:00             ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-03-27  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-03-29  0:00                 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-03-30  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-04-02  0:00                     ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-03-30  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-04-02  0:00                     ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-04-03  0:00                       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24  0:00     ` Ada 83 - Sometimes still chosen Richard D Riehle
1999-03-25  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-25  0:00           ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-26  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-25  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-26  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-03-26  0:00             ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-26  0:00               ` Tom Moran [this message]
1999-03-26  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-29  0:00                 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-29  0:00                   ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-03-27  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-26  0:00             ` Tom Moran
1999-03-26  0:00             ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-03-27  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-03-27  0:00                 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-03-25  0:00     ` Calculating SQRT in ADA robert_dewar
1999-03-24  0:00       ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1999-03-25  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-24  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-24  0:00 ` bob
1999-03-24  0:00   ` Niklas Holsti
1999-03-26  0:00     ` als0045
1999-03-26  0:00       ` als0045
1999-03-26  0:00     ` bob
1999-03-26  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-26  0:00   ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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