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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- In-Reply-To: adaworks@netcom.com's message of Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:33:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <JSA.96Mar21160427@organon.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:04:27 GMT
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- In article <adaworksDoL573.7vs@netcom.com> adaworks@netcom.com (AdaWorks) writes:
-
- > OK, Kevin,
- >
- > I'll give you this one. There were some non-portable workarounds, but
- > this was a shortcoming of Ada 83. The new ISO Ada standard supports
- > the ability to pass a function of procedure as an argument.
-
- Kevin does not appear to realize that it is 1996 and that ISO 8652:1995
- has been out for over a year and that compilers (including Gnat and
- ObjectAda) for it are available. This seems to be why his comments
- are largely out-of-date irrelevant rubbish.
-
- /Jon
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