ACM Computing Surveys obsolete

ACM Computing Surveys obsolete

[Peter Hermann]

I could not believe it: The issue March'96 (!) of ACM Computing Surveys
contains an article on page 245-247 with the promising title
"Progress in Programming Languages" by Kim B. Bruce (kim@cs.williams.edu)

The state of knowledge is of around the year 1990+-2.
The author is talking ia lot about ancient Ada83 but obviously 
never heard about Ada95, an international standard ISO8652-1995-February.
There are 7 references with the youngest from 1993.
What a progress!

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Re: ACM Computing Surveys obsolete

[Dale Stanbrough]

Peter Hermann writes:

"I could not believe it: The issue March'96 (!) of ACM Computing Surveys
 contains an article on page 245-247 with the promising title
 "Progress in Programming Languages" by Kim B. Bruce (kim@cs.williams.edu)

 The state of knowledge is of around the year 1990+-2.
 The author is talking ia lot about ancient Ada83 but obviously 
 never heard about Ada95, an international standard ISO8652-1995-February.
 There are 7 references with the youngest from 1993.
 What a progress!"

...and while not quite in the same league, have a look at the
Feb '96 acm sigplan article on programming language comparisons.
It uses Ada83 as the comparison language, and more importantly,
(IMHO) confuses the concepts of package and type.  !:-/

Dale