From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Ada & Posix
Date: 1998/02/23
Date: 1998-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980223161254.23308A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.888252994@merv
On 23 Feb 1998, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Of course I understand the "if only Ada 95 provided XXX, then all the
> world would flock from C/C++ to Ada 95." I look on all such claims
> with what the US Secretary of Defence called an "Ohio attitude", namely
> I won't be convinced till I see some evidence that such a claim is true :-)
Totally off topic, but are you sure that shouldn't be a "Missouri attitude"?
I must be culturally unsophisticated or something, but I thought that
particular weltanschauung was a characteristic of the "show me" state.
Which Ohio reference am I missing here?
Also, if Ada 95 provided XXX, we'd be within our rights to spam the world
with "ADULTS ONLY: Ada 95 does XXX!!!" :-)
-- Brian
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1998-02-23 0:00 ` Ada & Posix Markus Kuhn
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-02-25 0:00 ` X-Rated Ada [slightly rude] Nick Roberts
1989-11-20 16:47 Ada vs. Posix -- the battle continues mjl
1989-11-20 21:51 ` Ada & Posix William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 1:06 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
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