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From: Michael Erdmann <boavista@snafu.de>
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Subject: Re: Promoting Ada via facebook/google+ / A short history of Ada
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On 10/16/2012 10:43 PM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 16/10/2012 21:34, Michael Erdmann a �crit :
>> 1983 Ada 83 becomes an ISO (ISO-8652:1987) and ANSI Standard
>>       ((ANSI/MIL-STD 1815)
> ANSI only. It became an ISO standard only in 1987 (as indicated by the
> reference), after the French version was issued.
>
> At that time, ISO regulation required standards to be published in two
> out of the three official ISO language, which are English, French, and
> Russian. Given that the English standard had been written by French
> people for the US DoD, they didn't select Russian...
>
Maybe the KGB would have been faster in translating :-)

Thanx; Michael