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Subject: Re: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:28:11 +0100
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Date: 2012-02-26T19:28:11+01:00
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Le Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:59:07 +0100, Dennis Lee Bieber  =

<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> a =C3=A9crit:

> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:53:31 -0800 (PST), Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.co=
m>
> 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 disall=
ow  =

a compiler to act another way depending on its options, it just mean it =
 =

must be able to act the legal way.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity