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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,b446a49184d9e9e0
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Why it was a bad idea to drop The Mandate.
Date: 1997/12/14
Message-ID: <dewar.882158851@merv>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 298258495
References: <97120812101591@psavax.pwfl.com> <348F14AE.7AA5@gsfc.nasa.gov>
X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nyu.edu
X-Trace: news.nyu.edu 882158986 5794 (None) 128.122.140.58
Organization: New York University
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-12-14T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


Stephen Leake said, replying to Joe

<<I think he meant Ada83 has been superceded by Ada95?
>>

Maybe, but in the area of discussion (fixed-point handling, and fixed-point
vs floating-point), there is no significant change between Ada 83 and Ada 95,
so this is an irrelevant point. The bottom line here is that despite claims
of problems with fixed-point in Ada 83, we have no details at all on exactly
what these supposed shortcomings were.