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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:50:32 +0200
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Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) a �crit :
> Le Thu, 27 May 2010 08:49:23 +0200, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> a �crit:
>> Actually, the reason why the ISO standard is 4 years older than the ANSI
>> standard is that it had to wait for the french translation.
> Does it have something to deal with the AFNOR ? (Association fran�aise
> de normalisation, i.e. French office of normalization).
Yes, it is the official AFNOR/EN standard.

> Why is french so much important with international standards ? I've
> already noted, from long ago, the Unicode standard gives an as good
> place to french as it gives english.

ISO has three official languages: English, French and Russian. At that
time, a standard had to be published in two of these languages. Given
that the English version had been written by French people sponsored by
the US DoD, Russian was rapidly dismissed...

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