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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?)
Date: 1999/02/02
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In article <797595$ede@drn.newsguy.com>,
  nabbasi@earthlink.net.NOSPAM wrote:
> In article <7973lb$mdl$1@remarQ.com>, "news.oxy.com" says...
> >
>
> >Modula-2 had many features that later was implemented in Ada.
>
> didn't Modula-2 come after Ada?

According to FOLDOC (
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=modula-2 ) Modula-2 was
designed by Niklaus Wirth in 1978. The last *requirements* document for Ada
(Steelman) was completed in 1978. The language design was not completed until
1983.

For more info on the history of Ada, see http://www.adahome.com/History/ and
the links contained therein.

T.E.D.

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