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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f13a966d0e1d3f9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-18 06:43:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interesting and historical document Date: 18 Dec 2002 06:43:46 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0212180643.6ed94b63@posting.google.com> References: <95e501d7.0212171946.28bbe9e8@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1040222626 11421 127.0.0.1 (18 Dec 2002 14:43:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2002 14:43:46 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32017 Date: 2002-12-18T14:43:46+00:00 List-Id: "Frank J. Lhota" wrote in message news:... > Has Dijkstra liked ANY language invented after Algol? I believe this relates to an early draft of the language, not to Ada 83 itself. Note on the top of the second page that he complains about the redundancy of having a loop construct which Ada does not in fact now have. I also noticed some complaints (eg: problems creating non-FIFO scheduling, pg. 6) that were addressed in Ada95.