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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost
Date: 1999/04/11
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In article <FA0r38.6n@jvdsys.stuyts.nl>,
  jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) wrote:

>  This is unfortunate as this document can only be
> obtained by buying it from the IEEE directly, for what I
> consider an unreasonable
> amount of money (I could never justify it for myself

Well hard to know what is unreasonable. These days,
typical text books cost $70, so the IEEE standard price
is not that out of line.

Of course I agree all standards should be freely
available, I think it is appalling that they are not,
and congratulations to Chris Anderson for managing the
hard negotations with ISO (at one point it was touch
and go whether there would be an ISO standard for Ada)
to ensure that at least the Ada standard is indeed
freely available.

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