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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f805ceba146bd74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-14 11:18:16 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!wizard.pn.com!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!ncohen From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 7 Oct 1994 Date: 14 Oct 1994 14:28:43 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Distribution: world Message-ID: <37m4ir$cp3@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> References: <1994Oct7.181343.9070@sei.cmu.edu> <37haa0$baf@scoop.eco.twg.com> Reply-To: ncohen@watson.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: rios8.watson.ibm.com Date: 1994-10-14T14:28:43+00:00 List-Id: In article , davemc@shindo.esd.sgi.com (Dave McAllister) writes: |> I personally like the 9X designation. In fact, I went 'on record' in 1992 at the |> Ada/Australia conference that 9X should be left as the designation. |> |> If he products are solid and timely, why dump all the coverage hte 9X name has |> today? I've been telling non-Ada people about Ada 9X for years, only to be dismissed with "Well, that's still a long way off." (It was the same reaction Bjarne Stroustrup objected to when he complained about people treating the ANSI extensions to C++ as "science fiction.") When I refer instead to the features offered by Ada 94, people tend to take it more seriously as a viable option and a tangible reality. (The existence of GNAT certainly helps in this regard!) -- Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com