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From: Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: Ada 95 based RTOS
Date: 2000/02/25
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <890ght$bih1@ftp.kvaerner.com>,
>   "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:
> >
> > If your read (and believe) what the Jargon file
> > (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/) writes about Ada then it is not
> 
> You shouldn't. This has come up before. ESR is not particularly Ada
> friendly, and his jargon file is mainly his feelings on the defnitions
> of things. He's a clever guy, but he doesn't know everything. So the
> stuff in the jargon file is often quite off the mark.
> 
> I much prefer to refer people to FOLDOC (
> http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/mirrors.html ), which takes
> submissions from anyone. Its much more comprehensive, better maintained,
> and wittier.
> 
> --
> T.E.D.
> 
> http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html
> 
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.

Also note the interesting Ada entry in the "Super Linux Encyclopedia" at
http://smalllinux.netpedia.net/links/ada.html.  Its well done, neutral,
and
provides links to all of our favorite sites.
-- 
Scott Ingram
Sonar Processing and Analysis Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory