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-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!195.70.164.134.MISMATCH!news.tdcnorge.no!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!news.hacking.dk!pnx.dk!munin.nbi.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: 30 Aug 2004 16:00:42 +0200 Organization: Munin Sender: sparre@sparre.crs4.it Message-ID: References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <1g5v98l6p9j6.omv7rea0j13k.dlg@40tude.net> <873c2ktjpj.fsf@insalien.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparre.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1093874442 15597 156.148.70.170 (30 Aug 2004 14:00:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@munin.nbi.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:00:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3165 Date: 2004-08-30T16:00:42+02:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > For the Pascal case, _every_ Pascal seemed to have extensions, since > real world applications have greater needs than the original > teaching mission of Pascal. Yes. But I was quite disappointed when I noticed that Borland didn't even implement all of Pascal in their "Pascal" compiler. The one thing I still can remember was missing is returning record types from functions. Jacob -- �I like it when the support group complains that they have insufficient data on mean time to repair bugs in Ada software.� -- Robert I. Eachus