From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:28:11 +0100
Date: 2012-02-26T19:28:11+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.waatk9clule2fv@douda-yannick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u-adnbL5aqVVy9fSnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d@earthlink.com
Le Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:59:07 +0100, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> a écrit:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:53:31 -0800 (PST), Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
>>
>> It probably wasn't legal to use the term "Ada" for an incomplete
>> implementation and they were probably sued by the DoD.
>
> At the least, a cease&desist order...
>
> As I recall, DOD had the name locked down to "no subset, no
> superset" -- if it diverged from the language reference, it could not be
> called "Ada".
To be exact, this is allowed if the compiler provides an option to make it
act in strict Ada mode. This is explicitly stated somewhere in the first
pages of the Reference Manual.
To be named an Ada compiler, the compiler must be able to compile all
legal Ada source and reject all illegal Ada source. This does not disallow
a compiler to act another way depending on its options, it just mean it
must be able to act the legal way.
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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2012-02-17 17:22 Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:31 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:33 ` Fun with History: ³Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?² Bill Findlay
2012-02-23 13:29 ` Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Marco
2012-02-23 16:23 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 16:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-23 18:20 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 20:32 ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-24 1:14 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-02-24 21:32 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented tmoran
2012-02-26 14:53 ` Marco
2012-02-26 18:02 ` J-P. Rosen
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2012-02-26 18:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2012-02-26 21:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-27 17:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-27 20:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-26 18:33 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 16:22 ` Marco
2012-03-06 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-07 10:33 ` Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-03-07 12:43 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-08 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 1:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 12:21 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-09 2:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 9:00 ` anon
2012-03-08 15:32 ` Shark8
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2012-02-26 22:03 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented J-P. Rosen
2012-02-27 1:29 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 22:06 ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-27 2:15 ` anon
2012-02-27 4:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-27 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-06 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
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