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From: jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi)
Subject: Re: Ada firsts
Date: 1999/05/11
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On Mon, 10 May 1999 03:52:50 GMT, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:

>In article <373625B2.719AE8C0@globalnet.co.uk>,
>  J & A Richardson <jrichard@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>> My instructor said that Ada has 3 firsts.
>>
>> It was the first language to be standardized.
>>
>> She could not remember the other two firsts.
>>
>> Does anyone know what they are??
>
>
>Well let's start with the first point. It most certainly was
>NOT the first language to be standardized. Probably the
>confusion here is that it was the first object oriented
>language to be standardized.
>
>Other possible firsts:
>
>First language to have an official validation suite, keyed
>closely to the standard.
>
>First standard language to have full concurrency facilities.
>
>First language to be standardized by the canvass method instead
>of by an x3 committee
>
>First language for which a formal design process included the
>publication of requirements documents.
>
>First language to have a simultaneous (identical) Military
>and ANSI standard.
>
>All of these are a little bit discussable :-)
>
>I may well have missed other ones ...
>
>
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Do you have GNAT firsts in mind ?