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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,857262ad7d0ad537 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2f4cdd9ccfb8ede X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use? Date: 1999/06/12 Message-ID: <7jtgbj$8ct$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 488737537 References: <7j1qng$4fp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37576ded.26569745@news.mpx.com.au> <7j8ac0$eah$1@uranium.btinternet.com> <7jh07e$tek$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jhp34$6f1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jjij7$qci$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jl9n3$n9j$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <19990610.7A689D8.FF4B@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x30.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Jun 12 11:29:57 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , markh@usai.asiainfo.com wrote: > Everett M. Greene wrote: > (talking about Ada) > : It took 16 years to produce something which is useful? > : And this is after it took 10+ years to get to the `83 > : product? > > To be fair, a lot of that time Ada vendors, proponents, etc, > were counting on the government to push things forward. > > Now, it is Ada activists pushing things forward with > "real stuff". These kind of observations are simply guesses that have nothing to do with the reality of the situation. It is amazing to me how on CLA people who know very little about the actual history make wild guesses and post them as fact. For those who were around during both the Ada 83 and Ada 95 processes, it is quite clear that (a) the standardization process for both Ada 83 and Ada 95 went remarkably fast, certainly considering what has been achieved for other languages. (b) what delays there were resulted from fundamental technical problems and technical differences of opinion in how they should be resolved. It should be said that the fact that the language design effort was very well funded by the DoD in both cases was a crucial factor in the rapid pace that was achieved. Robert Dewar Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.