* Ada 9X Doc v5.99 @ 1995-01-20 0:25 Garlington KE 1995-01-21 0:27 ` Keith Thompson 1995-01-21 17:30 ` Tucker Taft 0 siblings, 2 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Garlington KE @ 1995-01-20 0:25 UTC (permalink / raw) ajpo.sei.cmu.edu has a new directory: /public/ada9x/mrtcomments/rm9x/v5.99 that appear to have updates of the Ada95 ARM and AARM. Does anyone know if the Rationale is also expected to be added to this directory, or if another version (6.0?) of the ARM/AARM is expected soon? I thought a new Rationale was going to be produced,but I haven't seen it... -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-20 0:25 Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Garlington KE @ 1995-01-21 0:27 ` Keith Thompson 1995-01-21 17:30 ` Tucker Taft 1 sibling, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Keith Thompson @ 1995-01-21 0:27 UTC (permalink / raw) In <3fmvuk$5mb@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com> l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE) writes: > ajpo.sei.cmu.edu has a new directory: > > /public/ada9x/mrtcomments/rm9x/v5.99 > > that appear to have updates of the Ada95 ARM and AARM. See /public/ada9x/mrtcomments/rm9x/v6.0 and v6.0.compressed. It includes ASCII and PostScript versions of the RM, AARM, Rationale, and chg83 (the latter documents the changes from Ada83 to Ada95). ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-20 0:25 Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Garlington KE 1995-01-21 0:27 ` Keith Thompson @ 1995-01-21 17:30 ` Tucker Taft 1995-01-23 15:36 ` Garlington KE 1 sibling, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Tucker Taft @ 1995-01-21 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3fmvuk$5mb@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com>, Garlington KE <l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com> wrote: >ajpo.sei.cmu.edu has a new directory: > > /public/ada9x/mrtcomments/rm9x/v5.99 > >that appear to have updates of the Ada95 ARM and AARM. Does anyone know >if the Rationale is also expected to be added to this directory, or if >another version (6.0?) of the ARM/AARM is expected soon? I thought a new >Rationale was going to be produced,but I haven't seen it... The "final" reference manual and rationale are in: /public/ada9x/rm9x/v6.0 >Ken Garlington GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com Intermetrics, Inc. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-21 17:30 ` Tucker Taft @ 1995-01-23 15:36 ` Garlington KE 1995-01-24 19:01 ` Robert A Duff 0 siblings, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Garlington KE @ 1995-01-23 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw) ISO.PS on AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU appears to have a distribution statement that only gives ANSI permission to make copies. Should I use RM.PS instead of ISO.PS if I want to distribute the manuals around my organization? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-23 15:36 ` Garlington KE @ 1995-01-24 19:01 ` Robert A Duff 1995-01-25 16:09 ` Michel Gauthier 1995-01-26 12:25 ` Olaf Weber 0 siblings, 2 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Robert A Duff @ 1995-01-24 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3g0iep$6hj@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com>, Garlington KE <l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com> wrote: >ISO.PS on AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU appears to have a distribution statement that only >gives ANSI permission to make copies. Should I use RM.PS instead of ISO.PS >if I want to distribute the manuals around my organization? I have no idea what the legal issues are, but you definitely want to use RM.PS, because it has paragraph numbers, which the ISO version does not. The index refers to paragraph numbers, and everybody is in the habit of referring to paragraph numbers when referencing a rule, so the ISO version of the document is nearly useless. Also, the ISO version is formatted for A4 paper, whereas RM.PS is formatted for 8.5 x 11 paper. Other than these kinds of formatting things, the two documents are identical. - Bob ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-24 19:01 ` Robert A Duff @ 1995-01-25 16:09 ` Michel Gauthier 1995-01-26 1:05 ` Matt Kennel ` (2 more replies) 1995-01-26 12:25 ` Olaf Weber 1 sibling, 3 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Michel Gauthier @ 1995-01-25 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <D2xBI2.BKy@world.std.com>, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) wrote: > [...] Also, the ISO version is formatted for A4 paper, whereas RM.PS is > formatted for 8.5 x 11 paper. When will the USA change to the Metric System, the only one which should be used for the definition of an international standard ? -- Michel Gauthier - Laboratoire d'informatique - 123 avenue Albert Thomas F-87060 Limoges - fax +33()55457315 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-25 16:09 ` Michel Gauthier @ 1995-01-26 1:05 ` Matt Kennel 1995-01-26 20:03 ` David Moore 1995-01-28 2:32 ` Michael Feldman [not found] ` <3g94oi$sro@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> 2 siblings, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Matt Kennel @ 1995-01-26 1:05 UTC (permalink / raw) Michel Gauthier (gauthier@unilim.fr) wrote: : In article <D2xBI2.BKy@world.std.com>, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A : Duff) wrote: : > [...] Also, the ISO version is formatted for A4 paper, whereas RM.PS is : > formatted for 8.5 x 11 paper. : When will the USA change to the Metric System, : the only one which should be used for the definition of an : international standard ? How silly. An inch is now a derived metric quantity, exactly 2.54000000 cm. : -- : Michel Gauthier - Laboratoire d'informatique - 123 avenue Albert Thomas : F-87060 Limoges - fax +33()55457315 -- -Matt Kennel mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu -Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego -*** AD: Archive for nonlinear dynamics papers & programs: FTP to -*** lyapunov.ucsd.edu, username "anonymous". ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-26 1:05 ` Matt Kennel @ 1995-01-26 20:03 ` David Moore 1995-01-27 14:04 ` Robb Nebbe 1995-01-28 6:06 ` Robert Dewar 0 siblings, 2 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: David Moore @ 1995-01-26 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw) mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes: >Michel Gauthier (gauthier@unilim.fr) wrote: >: In article <D2xBI2.BKy@world.std.com>, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A >: Duff) wrote: >: > [...] Also, the ISO version is formatted for A4 paper, whereas RM.PS is >: > formatted for 8.5 x 11 paper. >: When will the USA change to the Metric System, >: the only one which should be used for the definition of an >: international standard ? >How silly. >An inch is now a derived metric quantity, exactly 2.54000000 cm. Does this mean it can only be used for clothing? (Explanation for US readers. The centimetre is not an SI unit. It is only used for industries where an SI unit would prove inconvenient, such as the clothing industry. Perhaps the inch was defined in terms of centimetres to emphasise its bogosity!) [Anyway, I have never understood why the founding fathers did not throw off the Imperial system of measure when they threw off the Imperial yoke. The French found the need to replace their system of measure along with their system of government] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-26 20:03 ` David Moore @ 1995-01-27 14:04 ` Robb Nebbe 1995-01-27 19:03 ` Michel Gauthier 1995-01-28 6:06 ` Robert Dewar 1 sibling, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Robb Nebbe @ 1995-01-27 14:04 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3g8v5r$467@rational.rational.com>, davidm@rational.com (David Moore) writes: |> |> [Anyway, I have never understood why the founding fathers did not throw off |> the Imperial system of measure when they threw off the Imperial yoke. The |> French found the need to replace their system of measure along with their |> system of government] The US adopted the French system of naming large numbers (million = 10^6, billion = 10^9, trillion = 10^12 ...) only to have the French abandon it later to adopt the system used by Germany and England (million = 10^6, billion = 10^12, trillion = 10^18 ...). This leads one to ask the question: if the US had adopted the metric system would the French latter have changed to the English system? :-) Robb Nebbe ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-27 14:04 ` Robb Nebbe @ 1995-01-27 19:03 ` Michel Gauthier 1995-01-29 16:47 ` Michael Feldman 0 siblings, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Michel Gauthier @ 1995-01-27 19:03 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <1995Jan27.145656@lglsun.epfl.ch>, nebbe@lglsun.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) wrote: > [...] > > The US adopted the French system of naming large numbers (million = 10^6, > billion = 10^9, trillion = 10^12 ...) only to have the French abandon > it later to adopt the system used by Germany and England (million = 10^6, > billion = 10^12, trillion = 10^18 ...). In fact, we (the French) no longer use any such words, but often Mega and Giga with their official meaning, and greater similar multipliers whenever applicable, which is not very frequent. And 10^9 is generally 'milliard', not 'billion', which I have never encountered. > This leads one to ask the question: if the US had adopted the metric > system would the French latter have changed to the English system? :-) No idea, but we have yet to abandon the comma we use instead of the decimal point. Almost as impossible to justify as the US position about the Metric System. -- Michel Gauthier - Laboratoire d'informatique - 123 avenue Albert Thomas F-87060 Limoges - fax +33()55457315 ----- Are the messages that objects exchange also objects ? ----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-27 19:03 ` Michel Gauthier @ 1995-01-29 16:47 ` Michael Feldman 1995-01-30 22:53 ` Jules 1995-02-01 12:51 ` Christopher Costello 0 siblings, 2 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Michael Feldman @ 1995-01-29 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <gauthier-2701951857340001@164.81.60.62>, Michel Gauthier <gauthier@unilim.fr> wrote: >No idea, but we have yet to abandon the comma we use instead of >the decimal point. Almost as impossible to justify as the US position >about the Metric System. But the comma/period convention is at least standard in Europe. One can argue endlessly about the virtues of comma vs. period, but somehow the Europeans have managed to get agreement on _that_, which is quite rare for Europe.:-) Mike Feldman ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-29 16:47 ` Michael Feldman @ 1995-01-30 22:53 ` Jules 1995-02-01 12:51 ` Christopher Costello 1 sibling, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Jules @ 1995-01-30 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3gggqj$b95@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >In article <gauthier-2701951857340001@164.81.60.62>, >Michel Gauthier <gauthier@unilim.fr> wrote: > >>No idea, but we have yet to abandon the comma we use instead of >>the decimal point. Almost as impossible to justify as the US position >>about the Metric System. > >But the comma/period convention is at least standard in Europe. >One can argue endlessly about the virtues of comma vs. period, >but somehow the Europeans have managed to get agreement on _that_, >which is quite rare for Europe.:-) > >Mike Feldman Yes, but us British have opted out again ;-) No, seriously, I think we really DO have a problem that depending on where you are in the world 1,301 could have to completely different meanings... -- /* Julian R Hall csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk Flames should be redirected to /dev/null - I don't know what I'm saying myself so don't expect it to make sense all the time! */ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-29 16:47 ` Michael Feldman 1995-01-30 22:53 ` Jules @ 1995-02-01 12:51 ` Christopher Costello 1 sibling, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Christopher Costello @ 1995-02-01 12:51 UTC (permalink / raw) Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote: [SNIP] : But the comma/period convention is at least standard in Europe. : One can argue endlessly about the virtues of comma vs. period, : but somehow the Europeans have managed to get agreement on _that_, : which is quite rare for Europe.:-) The British would be surprised to learn that either they use the comma/period convention in the same way as the French, Germans etc, or that they are not in Europe. Or, on second thoughts, perhaps not so surprised. : Mike Feldman -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Christopher Costello | | SNI ASW BA OS 7 SIEMENS Tel: +49 89 636 40367 | | Carl Wery Str. 22 ======= Fax: +49 89 636 45860 | | 81739 Muenchen NIXDORF E-mail: C.Costello@mch.sni.de | | Germany | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-26 20:03 ` David Moore 1995-01-27 14:04 ` Robb Nebbe @ 1995-01-28 6:06 ` Robert Dewar 1995-01-30 5:21 ` Michael Feldman 1 sibling, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Robert Dewar @ 1995-01-28 6:06 UTC (permalink / raw) "I have never understood why the founding fathers did not throw off the imperial system of measures" Oh but they did, at least in part, no US motorist can buy an imperial gallon of petrol, only a puny gallon of gas, some 4/5's of the true imperial measure. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-28 6:06 ` Robert Dewar @ 1995-01-30 5:21 ` Michael Feldman 0 siblings, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Michael Feldman @ 1995-01-30 5:21 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3gcmu2$rb@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote: >Oh but they did, at least in part, no US motorist can buy an imperial >gallon of petrol, only a puny gallon of gas, some 4/5's of the true >imperial measure. Not even in Canada, where until recently gas (petrol?) was still sold by the "big" gallon. They do liters now. :-) Mike Feldman ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-25 16:09 ` Michel Gauthier 1995-01-26 1:05 ` Matt Kennel @ 1995-01-28 2:32 ` Michael Feldman [not found] ` <3g94oi$sro@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> 2 siblings, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Michael Feldman @ 1995-01-28 2:32 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <gauthier-2501951603300001@164.81.60.62>, Michel Gauthier <gauthier@unilim.fr> wrote: >When will the USA change to the Metric System, >the only one which should be used for the definition of an >international standard ? When pigs fly. :-) Mike Feldman ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
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* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 [not found] ` <3g94oi$sro@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> @ 1995-01-29 3:36 ` Michael Feldman 1995-01-31 11:18 ` Robert Dewar [not found] ` <EACHUS.95Jan27144621@spectre.mitre.org> 1 sibling, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Michael Feldman @ 1995-01-29 3:36 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3g94oi$sro@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, David Weller <dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote: >A popular rumor was a US congressman in the 70's said, "We'll start >using the metric system the same time we all start speaking French!" >Alas, there is a nontrivial amount of resistance to the metric >system, primarily founded on fear, but there are some genuine >economic reasons. In any case, the problem should correct itseelf >in, say, 20 years. :-) Well, maybe. There was a big push in the 70s. The Commerce Department tried to "metricate". Congress sorta got on the bandwagon, and we saw some really hilarious implementations. I can remember seeing a sign on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (which is owned by the National Park Service) saying Baltimore 40 miles 64.374 km Naturally this sort of stupidity (sabotage?) drove people up the wall. Three decimal places? Gimmea break! Much of US industry is metric now in any case, especially the auto industry. What is not yet metric is mostly stuff that doesn't matter all that much, like those highway road signs. It also doesn;t ruin international trade if Americans prefer to buy their fresh vegetables by the pound. Speedometers in the US are marked both ways, miles in big numerals, km in smaller ones. Canadian cars have it the other way. And cars with digital instruments let you hit a button to switch. IMHO, A4 paper is in a gray area. The US gobbles up so much paper that we can probably get away with having our own size. Docs formatted for 8.5 x 11 paper, printed on A4, just have slightly skinnier side margins and a fat bottom margin. If I am not mistaken, even though Canada is generally metric, they use the US paper sizes. Am I right? Paper is another funny story. Who's old enough to remember when DoD used 8 x 10.5 paper? Talk about MIL SPECS! The story I heard at the time they switched to "commercial standards" was that they discovered that paper suppliers were manufacturing truckloads of 8.5 x 11 paper, then _cutting it down_ to meet DoD contract terms (and charging DoD for the extra work, of course)! This must have been less than 20 years ago, because I moved to GW in 1975 and I think I was here when it happened. Is this a great world, or what? :-) Mike Feldman ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-29 3:36 ` Michael Feldman @ 1995-01-31 11:18 ` Robert Dewar 0 siblings, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Robert Dewar @ 1995-01-31 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw) Regarding the idiotic sign on the highway (km to three decimal places): Clive Cussler in his latest novel (Inca Gold) has DIrk Pitt use metric for all his measurements ("he looked ahead and about three meters away ...") Every reference is followed by in parentheses the equivalent US measure often with excessive decimal places in the same irritating manner (so for example the above three meters becomes .. three meters (9.7 feet)) The worst case is a reference to square meters which gets translated to square feet without bothering to notice that the conversion factor needs to be squared in this case. I assume it was some idiot copy editor who insisted on this annoying nonsense. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
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* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 [not found] ` <EACHUS.95Jan27144621@spectre.mitre.org> @ 1995-01-29 16:53 ` Michael Feldman 1995-01-30 12:54 ` NOthing to do with Ada anymore (Re: Metrics) David Weller ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Michael Feldman @ 1995-01-29 16:53 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <EACHUS.95Jan27144621@spectre.mitre.org>, Robert I. Eachus <eachus@spectre.mitre.org> wrote: > > The United States has (officially) been on the metric system for >centuries. However the government has little or no ability to force >people to change the way they think. Shell tried to switch to pumps >that sold gas in liters many years ago. They survived the experiment. But soft drinks are typically sold in liter bottles now, even in the backward U.S. Liquid refreshment may in fact be sold formally by the metric system in Europe, but the actual bottle sizes certainly are not in round numbers. Soft drinks In Europe tend to come in strange (though metric) sizes, like 33 cl. Beer too, I think. And one definitely runs into 750 ml wine bottles. Marketing, no doubt, just like here. Mike Feldman ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* NOthing to do with Ada anymore (Re: Metrics) 1995-01-29 16:53 ` Michael Feldman @ 1995-01-30 12:54 ` David Weller 1995-02-02 8:54 ` Fredrick Mbuya 1995-01-30 14:58 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Tarjei Jensen 1995-01-30 22:59 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Jules 2 siblings, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: David Weller @ 1995-01-30 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3ggh6q$bpd@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, Michael Feldman <mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu> wrote: >Soft drinks In Europe tend to come in strange >(though metric) sizes, like 33 cl. Beer too, That's not strange! 33cl = ~12oz. No retooling required in manufacturing plants :-) -- Frustrated with C, C++, Pascal, Fortran? Ada95 _might_ be for you! For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command: "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: NOthing to do with Ada anymore (Re: Metrics) 1995-01-30 12:54 ` NOthing to do with Ada anymore (Re: Metrics) David Weller @ 1995-02-02 8:54 ` Fredrick Mbuya 0 siblings, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Fredrick Mbuya @ 1995-02-02 8:54 UTC (permalink / raw) David Weller (dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote: : In article <3ggh6q$bpd@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, : Michael Feldman <mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu> wrote: : >Soft drinks In Europe tend to come in strange : >(though metric) sizes, like 33 cl. Beer too, : : That's not strange! 33cl = ~12oz. No retooling required in : manufacturing plants :-) I always thought this was so that when you tried to carry beer from one country to the other the math would be easy. 3 X 33cl = ~1l And _Every_ kmows that that meany that 1 sixpack = 2l = all you can bring with you. Note the .75l wine bottle I can't figure out though.... Just my .02 FIM, Eric -- ------------------------------ Frederick Mbuya Latolankatu 9 E 44 80160 Joensuu 16 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-29 16:53 ` Michael Feldman 1995-01-30 12:54 ` NOthing to do with Ada anymore (Re: Metrics) David Weller @ 1995-01-30 14:58 ` Tarjei Jensen 1995-01-31 9:47 ` request Ada cource plan (was: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99) Sverre Brubaek 1995-01-30 22:59 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Jules 2 siblings, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Tarjei Jensen @ 1995-01-30 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw) These days soft drinks in Norway tend to be sold in .5, 1.0 and 1.5 liter bottles (1.0 liter bottles might be dissapearing as well). .33 is still with us, but is slowly disappearing. Due to environmental concerns cans have been taxed to death. Beer in pubs used to be sold in .5 liter glasses, but now they are down to .4 liter (4 deciliters). It is still called halvliter (half liter) though. Greetings, -- // Tarjei T. Jensen // tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no || +47 51 563411 // Support you local rescue centre: GET LOST! // Working, but not speaking for the Norwegian Hydrographic Service. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* request Ada cource plan (was: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99) 1995-01-30 14:58 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Tarjei Jensen @ 1995-01-31 9:47 ` Sverre Brubaek 1995-02-01 23:33 ` David Weller 0 siblings, 1 reply; 26+ messages in thread From: Sverre Brubaek @ 1995-01-31 9:47 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <TARJEIJ.95Jan30145821@ulrik.uio.no>, tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) writes: |> These days soft drinks in Norway tend to be sold in .5, 1.0 and 1.5 liter |> bottles (1.0 liter bottles might be dissapearing as well). .33 is still with |> us, but is slowly disappearing. Due to environmental concerns cans have been |> taxed to death. |> |> Beer in pubs used to be sold in .5 liter glasses, but now they are down to .4 |> liter (4 deciliters). It is still called halvliter (half liter) though. |> |> |> Greetings, |> |> -- |> // Tarjei T. Jensen |> // tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no || +47 51 563411 |> // Support you local rescue centre: GET LOST! |> // Working, but not speaking for the Norwegian Hydrographic Service. Now that is what we call topic drift... ;-) ob Ada: I might be able to talk the powers that be here at UiB to adopt Ada95 as a first language, to do that i need some material though. What i need is recomendations of good books, a general plan for the cource (1 semester) and any other material that might be uses for persuasion of the local academia (which currently uses simula67). If somone could point me in the right direction for (or indeed be so utterly kind as to supply such) material, would I be very (ok. at least a little bit ;) grateful. -- +-------------------------------Sverre Brubaek--------------------------------+ | e-mail s424@brems.ii.uib.no | s-mail Stoeletorget 10, 5003 bergen | | v-mail (+47) 55 96 24 81 | www http://brems.ii.uib.no/~s424/ | +-------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ - --** Team os/2 **-- - - - --** Team Ada **-- - - - --** MNIF-stud **-- - ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: request Ada cource plan (was: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99) 1995-01-31 9:47 ` request Ada cource plan (was: Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99) Sverre Brubaek @ 1995-02-01 23:33 ` David Weller 0 siblings, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: David Weller @ 1995-02-01 23:33 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3gl0vq$sqd@due.uninett.no>, Sverre Brubaek <s424@ii.uib.no> wrote: >I might be able to talk the powers that be here at UiB to adopt Ada95 as a first >language, to do that i need some material though. What i need is recomendations >of good books, a general plan for the cource (1 semester) and any other material For a book reference for a first course, I've found Jan Skansholm's "Ada From the Beginning (2nd Ed)" to be very useful. It also covers Ada95 throughout it. I'm certain it would be suitable as a CS1 class. I also believe Jan is from over there (Sweden?), making it _slightly_ easier to reach the author :-) -- Frustrated with C, C++, Pascal, Fortran? Ada95 _might_ be for you! For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command: "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-29 16:53 ` Michael Feldman 1995-01-30 12:54 ` NOthing to do with Ada anymore (Re: Metrics) David Weller 1995-01-30 14:58 ` Ada 9X Doc v5.99 Tarjei Jensen @ 1995-01-30 22:59 ` Jules 2 siblings, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Jules @ 1995-01-30 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <3ggh6q$bpd@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >But soft drinks are typically sold in liter bottles now, even in the >backward U.S. Liquid refreshment may in fact be sold formally by the >metric system in Europe, but the actual bottle sizes certainly are >not in round numbers. Soft drinks In Europe tend to come in strange >(though metric) sizes, like 33 cl. Beer too, I think. And one definitely >runs into 750 ml wine bottles. Marketing, no doubt, just like here. > >Mike Feldman It's to do with standardisation. When we all metricated (?) we decided on various capacities that were standard. For any particular type of product, there are only certain sizes that the vendors are allowed to sell them in. For example, drinks may be (for example), 250ml or 330ml. You could not sell a can of drink containing 300ml in Europe. I believe 330ml originated because it was quite close to a common imperial unit (could be half a pint, but I'm not sure), whilst still being a relatively round number in the decimal system. Oh and 750ml is absolutely standard for a 'bottle' of wine. Has been for ages. I don't know when this tradition started, but something to do with the French, at a guess. -- /* Julian R Hall csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk Flames should be redirected to /dev/null - I don't know what I'm saying myself so don't expect it to make sense all the time! */ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada 9X Doc v5.99 1995-01-24 19:01 ` Robert A Duff 1995-01-25 16:09 ` Michel Gauthier @ 1995-01-26 12:25 ` Olaf Weber 1 sibling, 0 replies; 26+ messages in thread From: Olaf Weber @ 1995-01-26 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <D2xBI2.BKy@world.std.com>, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes: > Also, the ISO version is formatted for A4 paper, whereas RM.PS is > formatted for 8.5 x 11 paper. Would it not be a good idea to provide versions of `rm.ps' and `aarm.ps' that have been formatted for A4 paper? -- Olaf Weber ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 26+ messages in thread
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