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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be9bf965710b207c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-17 06:38:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.siscom.net!easynews!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: official recommendations of Ada Message-ID: References: <6QW47.1193$Pz6.12254@nnrp1.sbc.net> Organization: LJK Software Date: 17 Jul 2001 09:37:59 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 995377083 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:38:03 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:38:03 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10060 Date: 2001-07-17T09:37:59-05:00 List-Id: In article <6QW47.1193$Pz6.12254@nnrp1.sbc.net>, "Pat Rogers" writes: > The MISRA C guidelines recommend Ada (among others) at the end of the > document. > > http://www.misra.org.uk/ Good pointer. Thanks (even though I did not ask the question). In particular, the freely-distributable just so you do not excerpt preview at http://www.misra.org.uk/graphics/miscprev.pdf give that recommendation in the penultimate paragraph of page 3. The only better-than-C languages for safety-related systems they call out by name are Ada and Modula 2.