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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: ARM (was: Re: How to convert characters in a string into integers
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I don't have my Ada83 reference manual handy, but IIRC, it said "Language
Reference Manual" on the cover somewhere in the title. I think that's why
"LRM" got started - maybe someone with a hardcopy handy can check? Anyway,
I'll bet it was changed specifically because LRM could - as you observe -
refer to any language.

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"Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
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>
> Every page of ANSI/MIL-STD 1815A (the Ada-83 RM) has "ARM" at the top.
> It meant "Ada Reference Manual" then and it still does. LRM? Could refer
> to any language.
>