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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no 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: 2002-02-14 12:13:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C6C1A18.6EF57AF7@west.raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@west.raytheon.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ARM vs. LRM vs. ... (was: Re: How to convert characters in a string into integers ?) References: <3C5FF78B.D3E73A94@west.raytheon.com> <3C6C1572.C3597B79@avercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:12:08 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.83.38 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1013717632 147.24.83.38 (Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:13:52 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:13:52 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20023 Date: 2002-02-14T13:12:08-07:00 List-Id: Tucker Taft wrote: > > Marin David Condic wrote: > > > > I don't have the original paper copy handy, but FWIW, the online version at: > > http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/ada_lrm.html clearly titles > > the manual as "Ada '83 Language Reference Manual". In contrast, the page at: > > http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-Ttl.html shows the title for > > the Ada95 reference manual as: "Ada Reference Manual". I believe this is why > > originally, we called it the "LRM", but with Ada95 it became the "ARM". > > I am told Jean Ichbiah hated the term "LRM" -- he preferred simply "RM" (reminds > me of the country club in Boston called "The Country Club" -- under "T" in > the phone book!). > > For Ada 95, we didn't want to offend the hater(s?) of the term "LRM," and perhaps > were willing to recognize the presence of other languages, so using "ARM" became > natural. Of course, then we added an annotated version, which became > known as "AARM." > > > > > MDC > > > > > > "Jerry Petrey @west.raytheon.com>" <"jdpetrey wrote in message > > news:3C5FF78B.D3E73A94@west.raytheon.com... > > > > > > LRM was the common term for the Ada 83 Reference Manual back at the time I > > got > > > involved with Ada in the late 80's. > > > > > -- > -Tucker Taft I know John Barnes referred to it as the LRM in all of his old books but in "Programming in Ada95" he switched over to ARM or RM95. I still like LRM better - after all, we all know there shouldn't be any other language besides Ada :=) Jerry -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation, Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply -----------------------------------------------------------------------------