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: 103376,7c79b932e1a23ed9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Type casting question Date: 1999/12/23 Message-ID: <83ti8o$lcn$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 564173754 References: <385E87D8.2B44B800@tridsys.com> <83o9d0$ul9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <83of3h$352$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <83ookh$aek$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <83p0mc$g7g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <83sbku$rda$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <83tdjp$hts$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x22.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Dec 23 16:23:31 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <83tdjp$hts$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, reason67@my-deja.com wrote: > I will state for the record that Robert Dewar is > smarter than Jeffrey Blatt. This has nothing to do with who is smater than whom! It simply is a convention we have followed in this newsgroup that we take Ada to mean Ada as defined by the ISO/ANSI standard, and that Ada 83, an obsolete language, needs to be labeled as such. Part of the reason we take this veiwpoint is that to some extent this is an advocacy newsgroup (there is no separate comp.lang.ada.advocacy), and we want to make sure that everyone realizes that Ada 83 is obsolete, and has been replaced (now that the replacement is five years ago, and most Ada 83 compilers are no longer supported, that makes perfectly reasonable sense). Yes, we all understand that there are legacy systems using Ada 83, but it is interesting to note that DDCI, one of the last vendors to be doing Ada 83 only, has recently validated Ada 95 compilers using the latest ACAATS tests (for which congratulations are due, and it is definitely great to see a new vendor joining the Ada 95 vendor industry, an industry where competition is working well to improve the technology available to Ada (95!) users. In fact when people are using Ada 83, and ask how something is to be done, it is always a good opportunity to point out that what they are doing would be easier if they would not insist on using an obsolete version of the language :-) or, as often happens, they are are fact *using* Ada 95, but have not learned how to use all the nice new features effectively! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.