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: 103376,707ffbf6ec9d1855 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance References: <20051222102521644-0600@news.airmail.net> <2cOdnX_dVq4nuDbeRVn-ig@comcast.com> In-Reply-To: <2cOdnX_dVq4nuDbeRVn-ig@comcast.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:08:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.219.142 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1135372106 67.3.219.142 (Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:08:26 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:08:26 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6994 Date: 2005-12-23T21:08:26+00:00 List-Id: 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." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 01