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: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,f41f1f25333fa601 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/11/19 Message-ID: <56rf1o$o8f$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197364186 references: <3280DA96.15FB@hso.link.com> <1996Nov6.210957.3070@ole.cdac.com> <1996Nov8.183051.21638@ole.cdac.com> <5692dv$2t5$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <56g0uk$2ea@fmsrlw.srl.ford.com> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime nntp-posting-user: ok Date: 1996-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: wmilam@ford.com (William P. Milam) writes: >In article <5692dv$2t5$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au >>I've studied a couple of hundred programming languages, from Ada to Zed, >Unless I am out to lunch....Zed is not a programming language. It is a >specification language. You are out to lunch. You are thinking of "Z", which is is indeed a specification language. (I have one of the "Z" books handy on a shelf in my office, and have read some stuff on "Object Z".) I wrote "Zed", which was another language entirely having no connection with "Z". (After C came out, there was a brief vogue for languages with spelled out letter names as their names.) >It is not intended to be compiled into >any kind of executable form. Just because a notation _can_ be used as a specification language, or is even _designed_ as a specification language, does not mean it cannot _also_ be used as a programming language. Take a look at CLEAR and OBJ, for example. >PS: Hows [sic] things going Jack? Who's Jack? -- Mixed Member Proportional---a *great* way to vote! Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.