Re: ISO standards (see Ada95 chpt. 1.2)

[ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)]

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In article <1995Mar30.204804.33330@ocsystems.com>, ibc@ocsystems.com
(Ivan B. Cvar) writes: 

|> BTW, ANSI, in New York City, quoted me these prices for the ISO standards
|> listed in Ada-95 RM, chapter 1.2: 

Yeah, you've gotta watch out for the cab drivers in NYC too.
(The few who are caught by the Taxi & Limosuine Commission for gouging
tourists lose their jobs and go to work for ANSI.)

|> $US Pages  ISO_Standard_#    Description
|> ---+----+----------------+----------------------------------
|> $373 754 ISO 10646-1:1993 Univ. Character Set (UCS) - Part 1 Arch. & BMP
|>  $37   7 ISO  8859-1:1987 8-bit graphic character sets -- Latin-1 alphabet
|> $123  89 ISO    6429:1992 Control functions for coded character sets
|>  $52  15 ISO     646:1991 ISO 7-bit ASCII character set
|> $224 369 ISO    1539:1991 Prog. languages - FORTRAN
|> $224 369 ISO    1539:1991 Prog. languages - FORTRAN
|>  $13   1 ISO    1989:1985 Prog. languages - COBOL (Endorsement of ANSI std)
|> $266 511 ISO    8652:1995 Prog. languages - Ada
|> $166 219 ISO    9899:1990 Prog. languages - C

Some interesting statistics computed from Ivan's data: 

Language standard $US  Pages $US/Page
     Fortran      $224   369   0.61
     COBOL         $13     1  13.00
     Ada          $266   511   0.52
     C            $166   219   0.76

Clear evidence that Ada is the most cost-effective language!

;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

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