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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

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|Another, minor, flaw in this discussion is that Meyer, perhaps for|
|reasons more or less obvious, refers to Ada 83 when he writes     |
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Meyer did unfortunately insist on calling Ada 83 "Ada" and Ada 95 "Ada
95", but in that book he called different versions of Objective-C
"Objective-C" and different versions of C++ "C++" and he called a
newer version of Eiffel (which had significant changes from the
original Eiffel) "Eiffel".