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: 103376,3ccb707f4c91a5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: C++ Standardization (was: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Date: 1996/10/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188550708 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <325BED6A.63F4@itg-sepg.logicon.com> David Shochat writes: > > C++ is still not ISO standardized, but many in the C++ > > community expect that it will be either this year or > > early next. > > According to the FAQ list for comp.std.c++ at > http://reality.sgi.com/employees/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html#B8 > > ISO standardization will happen 12/98, assuming all remaining votes > succeed. > > In this context, I never cease to be amazed at the way people question > the use of GNAT on the grounds that it isn't formally validated for the > Sun ... > > And then suggest C++! > > People who seem perfectly sane otherwise. Indeed. But sanity is orthogonal to stupidity, and as the saying goes, "Always count on stupidity"... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com