From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/12/01
Date: 1996-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Dec1172714@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1MEDL.BA6@syd.csa.com.au
In article <yf3zpzzvcw4.fsf@sabi.demon.co.uk> piercarl@sabi.demon.co.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
> donh> The language. Yes, this only applies to languages with a single
> donh> line of descendants (eg. Ada, Eiffel). Where the evolutionary tree
> donh> branches, it only makes sense to speak of specific variants. [
> donh> ... ]
>
> Ahhh, but it's not as simple as that. In part because it's often not
> clear what is the ``current'' incarnation of a language; in part
> because, and that was my main point w.r.t. to the Eiffel-Eiffel 3
> distinction, to me Eiffel 3 is logically a branch on the Eiffel
> descendancy tree, not a linear descendant, and that continuining to call
> it ``Eiffel'' is thus somewhat misleading, for it implies a degree of
> continuity that is not there.
I would tend to disagree with this. Probably in general, but
certainly for the two particular cases mentioned. There is really no
issue or problem or whatever concerning what is the current
"incarnation" of either Ada or Eiffel. For Ada, ISO/IEC 8652:1995
explicitly refers to: "Information Technology -- Programming Languages
-- Ada". Pretty clear. For Eiffel, the direct analogue is "Eiffel
The Language", which does not say "Eiffel-3 The Language" or whatever.
In both cases there is a _great_ deal of continuity there and I don't
see anything particularly misleading about the unqualified names.
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
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1996-11-15 0:00 The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability The Rt Rev'd Colin James III, KOTM 1/96
1996-11-17 0:00 ` The Rt Rev'd Colin James III, KOTM 1/96
1996-11-18 0:00 ` James Youngman
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Jeff Miller
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Eoin Woods
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Stephen J Bevan
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Graham C. Hughes
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Francois Labreque
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-11-20 0:00 ` James Mansion
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
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