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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,1f886b0b57302687 X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f866c3318ce8fa68 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: take the 20 second lang. survey Date: 1999/08/16 Message-ID: <37B84331.F04E20B4@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 513443283 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <37B4B3F0.77E6C59A@netplus.net> <37B53B2E.93F493C@maths.unine.ch> <6Bot3.204$x04.19416@typ11.nn.bcandid.com> <871zd58njm.fsf@deneb.cygnus.qad.org> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: e108678@pwflcom Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "David C. Hoos, Sr." wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote in message > news:871zd58njm.fsf@deneb.cygnus.qad.org... > > "David C. Hoos, Sr." writes: > > > > > > 2) the 1st standardized OO language is missing in your > > > > OOL part: Ada (95) ... > > > > > > > > CL -- standardized in 1994. > > > He probably meant to say _internationally_ standardized. Ada95 was the > > > first such. > > > > Are you sure? IEEE Scheme dates from 1990, and it supports > > message-passing style programming. ;) > > When did IEEE Scheme achieve IEC/ISO standardization? I'll bet this could qualify on the following grounds: "Standards are such a wonderful thing that everyone should have one of their own." ;-) Doesn't something become "standardized" once you have written down a set of rules? How widely accepted and used the "standard" is may be debatable. Of course having a validation suite and some form of legal control of the language name might go a long way to making a standard actually mean something. For example, I don't know that you can't write a compiler for some language, label it C++ and have the unsuspecting assume that your compiler adheres to any sort of language standard at all. I think when Ada got started, the DoD's ownership of the name and insistence on validation gave some credibility to the standard. MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.mcondic.com/