From: l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE)
Subject: Re: Ada 95 is the name
Date: 12 Dec 1994 14:50:51 GMT
Date: 1994-12-12T14:50:51+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cho0b$k4f@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ichbiah.81.2EEB4C2F@jdi.tiac.net
Jean D. Ichbiah (ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net) wrote:
: There is no such thing as "Ada83/7": I wrote the manual and you can
: read it : The language published in 1983 is called "Ada". And now,
: as you read, the new language is called "Ada 95".
I've been curious about this, too. My copy of the draft Ada 95 manual just says
"Programming Language Ada" on the title page. The Foreword (at least in
draft 5.0) says, "ISO/IEC 8652 defines the Ada programming language, a
general-purpose language designed to support the construction of long-lived,
highly reliable software systems. This International Standard replaces the
previous version of 1987."
If this is so, shouldn't Ada mean The Latest Ada (at least as of 1995), and
Ada 95 and Ada 87 be the preferred form when referring to the current version
and the previous version in the same context?
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Ken Garlington GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com
F-22 Computer Resources Lockheed Fort Worth Co.
If LFWC or the F-22 program has any opinions, they aren't telling me.
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1994-11-29 21:27 ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) R. William Beckwith
1994-11-30 2:27 ` Henry G. Baker
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1994-11-30 16:39 ` David Weller
1994-11-30 17:58 ` Erik Naggum
1994-11-30 23:14 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-09 14:19 ` Ada 95 is the name Tucker Taft
1994-12-09 22:33 ` Pat Rogers
1994-12-11 18:59 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1994-12-11 20:05 ` Pat Rogers
1994-12-16 1:01 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-12 14:50 ` Garlington KE [this message]
1994-12-13 21:48 ` Tucker Taft
1994-12-14 12:44 ` Gentle
1994-12-14 17:34 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1994-12-10 10:10 ` Marc Wachowitz
1994-12-11 21:37 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-02 23:41 ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) Bob Duff
1994-12-03 8:16 ` Bill Birch
1994-11-30 18:59 ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-01 3:20 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 3:51 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 13:59 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-02 4:26 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-02 21:37 ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-03 15:17 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-09 22:07 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-11 23:59 ` Gary McKee
1994-12-12 5:04 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 12:46 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-16 19:35 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-17 20:36 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-20 5:24 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 9:36 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-12-13 16:12 ` Henry G. Baker
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1994-12-01 4:58 ` Kevin Warne
1994-12-02 21:58 ` Hans Boehm
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