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,f3d0e63c9d518453 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-16 17:11:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!peernews-us.colt.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E5036AE.2040603@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feb 17 - It was 20 years ago today... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 01:11:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.1.114 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1045444276 63.184.1.114 (Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:11:16 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:11:16 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34163 Date: 2003-02-17T01:11:16+00:00 List-Id: Dirk Craeynest wrote: > Monday February 17, 2003, marks the 20th anniversary of Ada as a > standardized language. On this day in 1983 the first Ada standard > ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A was published. I don't wish to belittle the importance of the anniversary, but the first Ada standard was MIL-STD 1815, 1980 Dec 10 (Ada was born 1815 Dec 10). -- Jeff Carter "Monsieur Arthur King, who has the brain of a duck, you know." Monty Python & the Holy Grail