From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada 83 - Sometimes still chosen
Date: 1999/03/25
Date: 1999-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbvl2$5bl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7dbcj3$e0l@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com
In article <7dbcj3$e0l@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>,
Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> In article <36F913E0.75F51763@lmco.com>,
> "Howard W. LUDWIG" <howard.w.ludwig@lmco.com>
wrote:
>
> >We need to be a little more careful in addressing
> >questions of new people.
> >The answer Chris gave _assumes_ Ada 95. Many people,
> >for whatever reason,
> >still use Ada 83.
>
> Howard's point needs to be emphasized.
Here is why I think it is a bad idea by default to always
talk about Ada 83.
Sure, we know that some projects get stuck using obsolete
hardware, software, operating systems, compilers etc, and
that is understandable (and not necessarily an
inappropriate decision).
But in comp.lang.ada, I think we do not want to be
emphasizing this kind of stuck-in-the-dark-ages view.
Ada 95 is a modern, recently designed language, and it
is important to always have the message that Ada is alive
and well (not just that ancient projects forced to use it
a long time ago are still alive and well).
Sure, if someone from one of these projects needs to know
something, we can probably provide the answer here to
questions about Ada 83, provided the question specifies
this (for that matter, this is probably the only place you
could still get Jovial questions answered :-)
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1999-03-24 0:00 Calculating SQRT in ADA cmcrae
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <36F913E0.75F51763@lmco.com>
1999-03-24 0:00 ` John Herro
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
[not found] ` <36FAA3DF.42C31CF@lmco.com>
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25 0:00 ` John Herro
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-25 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-03-27 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-04-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-03-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Calculating SQRT in Ada John Herro
1999-03-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-26 0:00 ` John Herro
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Ada 83 - Sometimes still chosen Richard D Riehle
1999-03-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-03-27 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Calculating SQRT in ADA robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-24 0:00 ` bob
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1999-03-26 0:00 ` bob
1999-03-26 0:00 ` als0045
1999-03-26 0:00 ` als0045
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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