From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
Subject: C9X, Ada 9X to merge!
Date: 1996/04/01
Date: 1996-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4jq8l3$c5f@solutions.solon.com> (raw)
In an unexpected move, the C and Ada standards committees decided today
to open the 2nd quarter of '96 by committing to merging their language
standards by Feb 30, 2000. They will be striving to produce a language
which retains as much as possible of the essential flavor of existing
Ada and C implementations, while gaining all of the maintenance nightmares
of both languages.
Ken Thompson, creator of the C language, was seen going into his office,
carrying an Ada reference manual, and an X-ACTO knife, muttering
"and now the cleansing begins".
Happy Holidays!
-s
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Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
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1996-04-01 0:00 Peter Seebach [this message]
1996-04-02 0:00 ` C9X, Ada 9X to merge! Dann Corbit
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
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