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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-17  6:58 UTC|newest]

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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