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Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked?
Date: 1998/09/21
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In article <6u54oi$79u$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
  Peter Hermann <ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> followup reduced to comp.lang.ada :
>
> In comp.lang.ada Pat Rogers <progers@acm.org> wrote:
> > Perhaps you are thinking of that by C.A.R. Hoare.  A very similar
> > situation, after his Turing Award lecture.  The book is "Ada
> > Language and Methodology".  In the foreword Hoare says of Ada, among
> > other nice things:
>
> > "... the language incorporates many excellent structural features...
> > ...one can now look forward to a rapid and widespread improvement in
> > programming practice, both from those who use the language and from
> > those who study its concepts and structures. ..."
>
> > Authors: Watt, David; Wichmann, Brian; Findlay, William
> > Prentice-Hall International Series on Computer Science, 1987
> > ISBN 0-13-004078-9
>
> I am afraid nobody would buy an 11-year old book about Ada83.


What an odd comment! It has nothing at all to do with the
thread, which is the issue of C.A.R.Hoare's TA address.

P.S. Actually you will find quite a lot of interest in this
11-year old book, have you read it?

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