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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f13a966d0e1d3f9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-18 10:54:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@most.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interesting and historical document References: <95e501d7.0212171946.28bbe9e8@posting.google.com> <3E006C67.43A7DA58@brighton.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:39:39 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1040236779 151.168.133.155 (Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:39:39 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:39:39 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32046 Date: 2002-12-18T13:39:39-05:00 List-Id: > Interesting indeed. Having never seen the original Green proposal, > it seems that quite a lot got changed before it reemerged as Ada. I purchased a textbook on Ada, which turned out to have been written prior to 1983. Several things it taught are not part of Ada. The only one I remember now is assertions.