From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What if Red had won? [Or Blue?]
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:48:08 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-07-17T22:48:08-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5deda34c-5889-4722-b9b5-1ee7005efea3@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ks5f03$id5$1@dont-email.me>
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:58:51 AM UTC-6, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>
> Red did win. The team behind Red was effectively in charge of the Ada-95
> revision, led by some guy named Tucker Taft, whoever he is. Jean Ichbiah,
> whoever he was, was so disgusted by what they did to the language that he
> resigned as a Distinguished Reviewer.
I remember reading that the Red team did do the brunt of the 9X revision, though this is the first I've heard about Ichbiah resigning in disgust. The addition of tagged-types was fairly well-done, I think (as in consistent w/ records to a fairly high degree) but I don't know of anything that was so egregious as to cause disgust... except, perhaps, one thing that [IIRC] Randy mentioned in a discussion of generics: they cannot be instantiated solely upon the formal parameters matching.
Do you know what things, in particular, he didn't like about the language's direction?
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-17 1:08 What if Red had won? [Or Blue?] Shark8
2013-07-17 3:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-17 5:31 ` Shark8
2013-07-17 5:43 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-17 6:20 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-17 6:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-17 6:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-18 5:48 ` Shark8 [this message]
2013-07-18 6:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-07-18 6:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-19 21:27 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-17 9:46 ` Strawman
2013-07-18 5:48 ` Shark8
2013-07-17 23:30 ` Randy Brukardt
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