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From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
Subject: C9X, Ada 9X to merge!
Date: 1996/04/01
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Date: 1996-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
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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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