From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Is Pascal really the father of Ada?
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:29:41 -0500
Date: 2016-11-22T10:29:41-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pro83c9qpbce73srk38oon4134c8gafkv7@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: o11lck$v59$5@dont-email.me
On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:40:56 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
<toylet.toylet@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>
>A few sentences of explanation would be enough, before I go Google
>Search. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
(seems my client doesn't consider () to be part of a URL, don't know how
that comes through)
Short answer -- the final teams in the language design all chose to
start with Pascal as being the cleanest/closest to the DoD requirements --
then cleaned up the problematic syntax (dangling else, semi-colon as
separator rather than terminator, etc.) before plugging in the new features
needed to meet the DoD.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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2016-11-22 14:40 Is Pascal really the father of Ada? Mr. Man-wai Chang
2016-11-22 15:29 ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2016-11-22 16:06 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-11-22 16:13 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-11-22 21:21 ` Adam Jensen
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