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,a3b9e84ceae52b23 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-13 13:01:31 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!winken.llnl.gov!woodruff From: woodruff@tanana.llnl.gov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: real numbers in ADA Date: 13 Mar 1995 20:58:52 GMT Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab Message-ID: References: <3jihrc$39n@netserver.univ-lille1.fr> <794851577snz@linkmsd.com> <3jqlq1$s02@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3jqnu0$3s9@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> Reply-To: woodruff1@llnl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: tanana.llnl.gov In-reply-to: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu's message of 10 Mar 1995 23:38:40 GMT Date: 1995-03-13T20:58:52+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Kenner writes: In article <3jqnu0$3s9@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes: Richard> I've read the Ada 83 and Ada 95 LRMs. I learned Ada from Richard> the Ada 83 LRM, but certainly consider the Ada 95 LRM a Richard> "nightmare". I'm feeling better already! I have been having this same reaction to the Ada95 LRM, and was beginning to wonder if a) my memory has become selective since I learned Ada83 ("life sure was a lot easier then!") or b) a *lot* of cells have taken early retirement. I think the world is in greater need of quality Ada textbooks now than was the case a decade ago. -- John Woodruff Lawrence Livermore National Lab 510 422 4661