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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!u26g2000yqu.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <101bf8f3-b823-45ee-9afd-40cbafb4b7a9@t26g2000prt.googlegroups.com> <774c25c4-3270-4ffb-ad19-366a0ab16659@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <4c22669b$0$3623$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1277417900 25469 127.0.0.1 (24 Jun 2010 22:18:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:18:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u26g2000yqu.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12889 Date: 2010-06-24T15:18:19-07:00 List-Id: On Jun 24, 10:25=A0am, a...@att.net wrote: > From a Read Only web site: > > =A0 =A0 =A0 "Ada - The Project The DoD High Order Language Working Group" > =A0 =A0 =A0 William A. Whitaker, Colonel USAF, Retired > =A0 =A0 =A0 PO Box 3036, McLean VA 22103 > > Typo in the quoted work come from the document. > > =A0 =A0 "Without exception, the following languages were found by the > =A0 =A0 evaluators to be inappropriate to serve as base languages for a > =A0 =A0 development of the common language: FORTRAN, COBOL, TACPOL, CMS-2= , > =A0 =A0 JOVIAL J-73, JOVIAL J-3B, SIMULA 67, ALGOL 60, and CORAL 66." > > That statement alone shows that Algol had no influence on the design > of common language (later named Ada). I don't know what the heck brought all this on. However: (1) it is indisputable that Pascal was a major influence on Ada; (2) the Wikipedia entry for Pascal says, right up front, "Pascal is based on the ALGOL programming language"; (3) the post in this thread that you're apparently responding to referred to Algol as a "direct ancestor" of Ada---not as a "parent" of Ada. So you've taken a whole lot of space attempting to debunk something that nobody said. That's all I'm going to say on the subject. -- Adam