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: 103376,86616b1931cbdae5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ? Date: 1997/08/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 264580643 References: <97080410223317@psavax.pwfl.com> <5skhdb$pfc@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5skhdb$pfc@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, Fergus Henderson wrote: >Which features are the ones that you consider critical for information >systems applications? I don't know what Robert will say, but my guess is that these kinds of systems want decimal fixed-point types (with the requirement in F.3(14-16) to make them useful), plus all the other features in Annex F. Perhaps also Annex E, for some of them. - Bob