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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b307bd75c8071241 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Subject: Re: newbie Q: storage management Date: 1997/05/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240653942 References: <5k5hif$7r5@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <336A065B.41C6@magellan.bgm.link.com> <336E15A4.167E@magellan.bgm.link.com> <5knhge$mul@top.mitre.org> Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar said: > P.S. There was for a while a language study group associated with > SIG Ada, whose purpose was to provide additional input to the > language design process. It never was very successful in that > goal, partly because a lot of the people involved did not have the > kind of depth of knowledge necessarily to put together coherent > proposals, but on the other hand, I think a lot of people found it > instructive and interesting. The one legacy I know of in Ada 95 from the ALIWG is the mechanism for associating data with exception instances. I think some other ideas the originally surfaced in the ALIWG also made it in, but via CIFO and the real-time working group so those ideas had, at the least, mixed parentage. -- Robert I. Eachus with Standard_Disclaimer; use Standard_Disclaimer; function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...