From: ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: C9X, Ada 9X to merge!
Date: 1996/04/02
Date: 1996-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4jqqra$qn2@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4jq8l3$c5f@solutions.solon.com
Peter Seebach (seebs@solutions.solon.com) wrote:
: 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
: --
: Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
: C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really!
: FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.]
: The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html
long, long time ago, after the gulf war, somebody ;-) wrote the following:
ACEIL
A top oo programing language has been designed called "ACEIL"
(also dubbed "coala" for "the ceiling (or mother) of all languages")
which combines the languages Ada, C, C++, Eiffel into one single,
highly expressive language which finally reconciles the language wars.
The delegates Bjarne Stroustruppi, Bertrand Meiffel, and Jean Ischias
have signed the final contract of appeasement.
All parties gave way to the opponents' interests:
The Ada community relaxed the language towards enhanced possibilities
to reallow programing errors. The benefit is twofold:
First, C hackers regain their beloved error searching process,
second, the push of the trade-unions to lower the unemployment rate is
satisfied by prolonging the maintenance part of the software
development process, which totals approx. 50% of the life cycle.
After long debate, the C++ community accepted Ada's completeness
of the object-oriented paradigm.
This information is rather incomplete due to its freshness, so,
does somebody have more information about the new language?
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1996-04-01 0:00 C9X, Ada 9X to merge! Peter Seebach
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