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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/03 Message-ID: <39105DC4.38828AB3@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 618767266 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390DEC7F.9429C82C@online.no> <390E2A20.B647D0D6@maths.unine.ch> <8em8mb$evd$1@wanadoo.fr> <390EEF24.BD36AA24@maths.unine.ch> <8eonmi$e4q$2@wanadoo.fr> <39103CBE.7D5B9F4E@quadruscorp.com> <8epgst$hc1$1@wanadoo.fr> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 957373895 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 03 May 2000 13:11:35 EDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 13:11:35 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Here in the Ada world, we tend to think that nothing is "standard", > sometimes not even usable, before it has been rubber-stamped by ISO. > A LOT of useful stuff in other languages is pretty "standard" without having > ever been endorsed by any official body. Yes, making libraries widely Indeed, some of the new things in Ada 95 are formalizations of what were previously "de facto standards." -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau