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: 103376,7e0af11f0ae4fd3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mw@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de (Marc Wachowitz) Subject: Re: Annotated Reference Manual: Text to HTML Date: 1997/11/03 Message-ID: <63ll1d$7f8$1@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 289102971 Organization: --- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-11-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > Hope you didn't spend too much time on this; the html rationale is on > AdaHome The Rationale isn't at all the same as the Annotated Reference Manual: The former is mostly a general outline of improvements since Ada-83, whereas the latter is the Reference Manual annotated with remarks about subtle issues of the language specification, i.e. the kind of stuff which compiler implementors, language lawyers and other people (like me) who're interested in the "dirty parts" of programming language design like to have. It's a bit like a contract's fine print with commentaries from those who invented it - non-lawyers aren't likely to find it very stimulating ;-) -- Marc Wachowitz