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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?)
Date: 1999/02/03
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In article <7992oe$ram$1@remarQ.com> "news.oxy.com" <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com> writes:

  > I think it does not matter much which was defined first and whether M2
  > influenced design of Ada 83 or not.
  > The people that were designing Ada 83 can only answer this question.

   Actually it is the people who designed Ada 79 (Preliminary Ada) and
Ada 80 that you should ask.  In any case, Robert Dewar was a
participant, so he can answer the question. ;-) Niklaus Wirth, was
not, to my knowledge a participant, and as far as I can tell, the
Wirth language that had the most impact on Ada 79 was Algol-W (from
1967).  Much of that was in the I/O area, and was substantially
revised in Ada 80 and Ada 83.

 > It may be so that experience with M2 was known to some members of Ada design
 > team and it could have some influence on them. Anyway that is
 > already part of the history. 

    Actually, I would say that the greater flow was from Ada 83 to
Modula-3 (Note: 3 not 2).  Of course, the lack of available
implementations seems to have driven Modula-3 from the scene.






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					Robert I. Eachus

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