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: 103376,3a1c64628a09855b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!syros.belnet.be!ikaria.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail From: dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Lack of formal syntax undermines Ada Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: muspel.cs.kuleuven.be X-Trace: ikaria.belnet.be 1207984603 11452 134.58.42.26 (12 Apr 2008 07:16:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Summary: Pre-1983 Ada proposed standard available in LNCS X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20887 Date: 2008-04-12T07:16:43+00:00 List-Id: In article , Adam Beneschan wrote: [...] >There was an early, pre-1983, version of Ada that had a rule that >functions couldn't have side effects; [...] I haven't looked to see >if this draft version of Ada exists somewhere on the Internet. A reference manual for this pre-1983 Ada was published by Springer in the LNCS series. Here is the relevant info if you would like to try retrieving the book in a library: The Programming Language Ada Reference Manual Proposed Standard Document United States Department of Defense Book Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online) Volume Volume 106/1980 DOI 10.1007/3-540-10693-6 Copyright 1980 ISBN 978-3-540-10693-7 Subject Collection Computer Science SpringerLink Date Friday, January 20, 2006 If you have or can yet access to Springer's on-line archive you can download PDF versions of all chapters [1]. What Springer calls "Front Matter" [2] and "Back Matter" [3] is freely available there (though the former contains the wrong title page). [1] [2] [3] HTH Dirk Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) *** 13th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2008 *** June 16-20, 2008 ** Venice, Italy ** http://www.ada-europe.org ***