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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 23:57:01 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <dewar.826058336@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >Kazimir says
- >
- >": There is a GNU Ada compiler, too---is _that_ 100% compliant with the standards"
- >
- >That's odd, obviously of course he has no idea what he is talkin about :-)
- >
- >For the record, GNAT (which is what you mean by the GNU Ada Compiler) though
- >not 100% compliant with the standard (no compiler can likely claim 100%
- >compliance) is highly compliant and has successfuly passed the stringent
- >ACVC validation suite (to be fair the current suite is more stringent in
- >some places than others!) Furthermore part of this validation involvces
- >signing a DOC that states there are no deliberate extensions.
-
- >I think you were assuming that because GNU C is an extended dialiect of
- >C, that GNU Ada must take the same attitude.
-
- No, I phrased that as a question. Note the subject-verb inversion of my
- sentence, which marks it as question. I'm sure I put a question mark on the
- end.
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