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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use?
Date: 1999/06/25
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In article <19990614.79AB570.86B3@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us>,
  mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us (Everett M. Greene) wrote:
> > > And this is after it took 10+ years to get to the `83
> > > product?
> > Wrong.
>
> What became known as Ada was in process prior to 1975.
> 10 is a quite good approximation to the number of years
> from inception to the first standard (if not first product).
> The first estimates were that the initial compiler(s)
> would be available by the end of 1975.

I know of no such estimates. There might have been estimates
of this kind very early in the process, but the language
design was not even vaguely complete by that time.

Again, the interesting thing here is your assumption that ten
years is a long time for language standardization. This just
isn't true. Look at other languages, and you will see that
the Ada process was actually amazingly fast.


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