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,f25e853f410d55da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) Date: 1999/02/02 Message-ID: <7981kf$298$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 439937303 References: <78abg4$cnc$1@its.hooked.net> <78i8s4$hth$1@its.hooked.net> <78iq2m$br9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <794gg7$ib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7963q0$ail$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7973lb$mdl$1@remarQ.com> <797595$ede@drn.newsguy.com> <797io4$jt7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <797q7f$r60$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x6.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Feb 02 23:27:23 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <797q7f$r60$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > In article <797io4$jt7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, > dennison@telepath.com wrote: > > The language design was not completed until 1983. > > That's misleading of course, this is the date of > standardization, and cannot be compared with the M2 date, > since there was no ISO standard for M2 as far as I know. Apparently there is an ISO standard. I couldn't dig up a date on it, but it appears to have occurred significantly after the original design of the language. That is fairly similar to the situation with K&R C vs. ISO C. But your point is quite valid. Niggles about the exact dates notwithstanding, it is fairly clear that Modula-2 does *not* postdate Ada. I think the best way to think of them is as "sister" languages. T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own