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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:19:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <101bf8f3-b823-45ee-9afd-40cbafb4b7a9@t26g2000prt.googlegroups.com> <774c25c4-3270-4ffb-ad19-366a0ab16659@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net i/09XDn+pIopixBS/6WuagMqJ8DO18dnXu0Gkey5yxP6pMzYwq Cancel-Lock: sha1:0FFka3G0oI7v1frnirBNqP5s5Cw= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.23.0.091001 Thread-Topic: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop Thread-Index: AcsTAKY6vUZHGVZTpEWvviSgLLlJUQ== Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11897 Date: 2010-06-23T19:19:42+01:00 List-Id: On 23/06/2010 17:20, in article hvtc8u$rpp$1@speranza.aioe.org, "anon@anon.org" wrote: > Unions are one thing, but non Ada conditional structures are another! > > AT&T create C and the first C compiler then ... > Also, even a logical statement may result in a true value for one > system while being false in another. So, to solve some of these > and others problems conditional structures were added to C instead > of defining and enforcing a C RM. This is nonsense C history and nonsense Ada language genealogy. Conditional expressions originated in Ada's direct ancestor, Algol. I'm delighted to see their reappearance in Ada. -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk