Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>   Of course "The C Programming Language" was published 5 years before the
> Ada 83 RM, and Ada 95, like C++, is about 10 years old.  Perhaps for this
> real-time, satellite based anti-missile system he means Microsoft's .NET
> language, C#.  Does "Space News" print letters to the editor with factual
> corrections?  Pointing out the ignorance of someone in authority is always
> amusing.

Let's be accurate. C dates to 1970. Ada dates to 1980 (MIL-STD-1815 is dated 
1980 Dec 10). C++ dates to 1982 (I'd argue that since backwards compatibility 
with C was an important design criterion, it dates to 1970 :). The dates of the 
standards or publications are meaningless in determining the "modernity" of a 
language, except for Ada.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Go and boil your bottoms."
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