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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:59:37 -0500
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Well, it could adhere to the ISO standard, yet still "Embrace and Extend"
(read: "Engulf and Devour"). It might compile standard Ada, but provide all
sorts of language extensions, custom libraries, etc, that are tempting to
employ, but lock you in to one vendor.

That sort of thing has been going on for years.

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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:50:53 +0100, Michal Nowak wrote:
>
> I don't know, but it wouldn't do Ada much good unless it followed the
> ISO standard and was portable.
>