From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: What if Red had won? [Or Blue?]
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:58:51 -0700
Date: 2013-07-16T23:58:51-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ks5f03$id5$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38846385-9884-46d5-8f58-6cf5c6049bbd@googlegroups.com>
On 07/16/2013 06:08 PM, Shark8 wrote:
> Coming across Robert Dewar's lecture on Ada's Past, Present, and Future; he
> mentioned the four languages in Ada's history -- I haven't seen the documents
> [and wouldn't know where/how-to get them] and started wondering what would
> have happened if Red had won? How would Ada be different?
Red did win. The team behind Red was effectively in charge of the Ada-95
revision, led by some guy named Tucker Taft, whoever he is. Jean Ichbiah,
whoever he was, was so disgusted by what they did to the language that he
resigned as a Distinguished Reviewer.
--
Jeff Carter
"I don't know why I ever come in here. The
flies get the best of everything."
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-17 1:08 What if Red had won? [Or Blue?] Shark8
2013-07-17 3:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-17 5:31 ` Shark8
2013-07-17 5:43 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-17 6:20 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-17 6:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-17 6:58 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2013-07-18 5:48 ` Shark8
2013-07-18 6:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-07-18 6:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-19 21:27 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-17 9:46 ` Strawman
2013-07-18 5:48 ` Shark8
2013-07-17 23:30 ` Randy Brukardt
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