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From: ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net (Jean D. Ichbiah)
Subject: Re: Why no exception hierarchy ?
Date: 1995/04/07
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Date: 1995-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.797220950@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:


>The standardized language is called Ada, not Ada 95. The name "Ada 95" has
>no official status, it is just a convenient handle for advertising, like
>Fortran 77 (the official language name is simply Fortran).

This notion of "official" status or name diKtated by ISO gives it
more power to rewrite history than they really can.

Following you, then, you must be saying Windows to mean the
latest version: Windows NW 3.51 and this instantly has all 3.1
users disappear in a blackhole that not even 95 will rescue.

Safer to state full name.

Jean D. Ichbiah