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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,474d28ddf953b3c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-14 04:44:53 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!rutgers!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news1.digex.net!cnj.digex.net!cnj!gentle From: gentle@cnj.digex.net (Gentle) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 95 is the name Date: 14 Dec 1994 12:44:53 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Message-ID: <3cmpc5$kj4@cnj.digex.net> References: <3bi9sq$17r@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <19941130T175838Z.enag@naggum.no> <1994Dec9.173347.18649@sei.cmu.edu> <3cho0b$k4f@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cnj.digex.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: 1994-12-14T12:44:53+00:00 List-Id: On 12 Dec 1994 14:50:51 GMT, Garlington KE (l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com) wrote: : 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? Pretty much. Just look at other software: Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, then Windows Chicago, which is technically known as Windows 4.0. -- ========================================================================= gentle@cnj.digex.net Software Engineer (extraordinaire!) Level: International Hacker Edison, NJ "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." -- J. Paul Getty =========================================================================