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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,d730ea9d54f7e063 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/14 Message-ID: <4ustb8$15cc@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174148658 distribution: world references: <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center reply-to: ncohen@watson.ibm.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1996-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4um1l9$klq@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Craig Franck writes: |> Well I'm not an Ada expert, but I have "Ada as a Second Language" |> by Norman Cohen and "Ada Programmer Handbook" by Dean Gonzalez. |> On the cover a little R with a circle around it appears by the |> word Ada. In the book by Norman Cohen it states (page 8) that |> the name "Ada" is a trade mark of the DOD and it's usage is |> "strictly enforced". As several people have pointed out, Craig is referring to the first (1986) edition of "Ada as a Second Language". The second (1996) edition does not have a trademark symbol next to the word Ada and no reference is made in the text to a trademark. (In fact, I am not even sure the trademark symbol appears on the cover of later printings of the first edition.) (Similarly, Bob Mathis's license plate no longer reads "ADA-TM".) At the time the first edition of "Ada as a Second Language" went to press, the Ada Joint Program Office truly believed that the trademark had the force of law, and they fully intended to use the trademark to prevent the proliferation of divergent dialects all called Ada. They abandoned the trademark shortly afterward upon being advised that it was unenforceable. -- Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com