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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bd4e40454c63169a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-10 09:24:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C66ACC9.17129173@spam.com> From: Uckfay Ouyay X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ARM (was: Re: How to convert characters in a string intointegers ?) References: <3C5F3817.AE9080FA@acm.org> <87bsexgu7d.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:24:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.206.154 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1013361867 209.86.206.154 (Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:24:27 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:24:27 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:24:27 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19834 Date: 2002-02-10T17:24:27+00:00 List-Id: Florian Weimer wrote: > > Jeffrey Carter writes: > > > Every page of ANSI/MIL-STD 1815A (the Ada-83 RM) has "ARM" at the top. > > It meant "Ada Reference Manual" then and it still does. LRM? Could refer > > to any language. > > I can't tell you anything about history for obvious reasons, but the > current usage on comp.lang.ada seems to be to reserve "LRM" to Ada 83, > and use "AARM", "ARM", or "RM" for the Ada 95 manual. I've been using "ARM" since 1984, and I'm too old to change now :) -- Jeff Carter "Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail