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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,d730ea9d54f7e063 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/28 Message-ID: <5004op$ir4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176894151 references: <31EA0B65.3EF8@wgs.estec.esa.nl> <31EF7E48.5ABE@lmtas.lmco.com> <4ss8ru$3d4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <31F28DBD.2A1D@harris.com> <31f3c52e.238719470 <4tnoeh$qjr@maverick.tad.eds.com> <4uj42h$j06@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4um1l9$klq@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1996-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) writes: |> In article <4ur9ii$7r4@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Craig Franck writes: ... |> > It's first spefication, I believe, was DOD-1. This |> |> ??? Where'd you come up with this one??? The original Ada did have a |> Mil Std reference # (in addition to ANSI and ISO #s), which happened |> to be 1815 (year or Ada's birth). The first _specification_ for Ada wasn't DOD-1. But pre-Ada, there were at least three _requirements_ documents, known as "Strawman" "Ironman" and "Steelman", and then a design competition in which IBM, Stanford Research Institute, Honeywell and Jean Ichbiah submitted designs. (I was one of the reviewers of both the requirements documents, and the design competition.) Ichbiah won. The _requirements_ documents and the design competition were, at least colloquially, if not officially, called "DOD-1". BTW, the first programming language standardized was COBOL -- not by ASA (the ANSI predecessor), but it was oficially known as "DOD Standard COBOL 60". The first language standardized, however, wasn't a programming language. It was French, in the 16'th century. -- What fraction of Americans believe | Van Snyder Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? | vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov