From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c3f4cf52d18939d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-17 13:45:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!cyclone.swbell.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA the acronym - amusement References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:45:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.0.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1063831515 63.184.0.174 (Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:45:15 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:45:15 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42642 Date: 2003-09-17T20:45:15+00:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > Ada [not an acronym] DoD Standard Computer Software Language To be precise, Ada is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 8652:1995), not a DOD standard. -- Jeff Carter "From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish." Bananas 28