Re: Language Design Mistakes (was "not intended...")

[Mark Hertel <mhertel@pippo.alphatech.com>]

"W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <see.signature@this.message> writes:

> Robert Dewar wrote:
> > John Herro says
> > <<It might be surprising, but that was allowed in the 1980 Ada
> > standard!  (It was, of course, removed in Ada 83).>>
> > 
> > It is indeed surprising given that there was no such thing as "the
> > 1980 Ada standard". The first standard for Ada was in April of 1993.
> > ....
> 
> Before we start a semantic war about the definition of "standard"
> let me point out that I have a copy of MIL-STD-1815A (1983) where 
> the STD (rightly or wrongly) means "standard"  In fact, before 
> I read the quote above, I was planning to post the following query 
> (for unrelated reasons):

The full title is ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A-1983, but there were two "official"
Language Reference Manuals released in 1980, in July and November. The
book I have refers to an ANSI study conducted in 1981 that led to some
changes and produced the ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A, dated February 17, 1983.

The "A" represents a change to the MIL-STD-1815 which was the 1980
military standard but not an ANSI standard.

Mark Hertel

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