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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 15:55:04 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4ikbar$g0k@tpd.dsccc.com> <4imqofINNn82@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4ipbdb$6j7@tpd.dsccc.com>
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- In article <4ipbdb$6j7@tpd.dsccc.com>,
- Kevin Cline <kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com> wrote:
- >The Ada community has been particularly slow at agreeing on de facto
- >standards, while the C community has moved much more quickly. Every
-
- Not sure about that one. Ada became standardized very quickly, compared to C.
- It is a younger language, yet C took until 1989 to become standardized, six
- years after Ada 83.
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- >UNIX workstation is now X-windows based and the Ada community still
- >hasn't agreed on an API to X-windows.
-
- Well, that's a little unfair, considering that X was developed using C. The
- Xlib client library naturally arose at the same time as X! Let's give the Ada
- folk a break!
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