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- From: ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
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- Subject: Re: C9X, Ada 9X to merge!
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- Date: 2 Apr 1996 09:08:58 GMT
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- Peter Seebach (seebs@solutions.solon.com) wrote:
- : In an unexpected move, the C and Ada standards committees decided today
- : to open the 2nd quarter of '96 by committing to merging their language
- : standards by Feb 30, 2000. They will be striving to produce a language
- : which retains as much as possible of the essential flavor of existing
- : Ada and C implementations, while gaining all of the maintenance nightmares
- : of both languages.
-
- : Ken Thompson, creator of the C language, was seen going into his office,
- : carrying an Ada reference manual, and an X-ACTO knife, muttering
- : "and now the cleansing begins".
-
- : Happy Holidays!
-
- : -s
- : --
- : Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
- : C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really!
- : FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.]
- : The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html
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-
- long, long time ago, after the gulf war, somebody ;-) wrote the following:
-
- ACEIL
-
- A top oo programing language has been designed called "ACEIL"
- (also dubbed "coala" for "the ceiling (or mother) of all languages")
- which combines the languages Ada, C, C++, Eiffel into one single,
- highly expressive language which finally reconciles the language wars.
- The delegates Bjarne Stroustruppi, Bertrand Meiffel, and Jean Ischias
- have signed the final contract of appeasement.
- All parties gave way to the opponents' interests:
- The Ada community relaxed the language towards enhanced possibilities
- to reallow programing errors. The benefit is twofold:
- First, C hackers regain their beloved error searching process,
- second, the push of the trade-unions to lower the unemployment rate is
- satisfied by prolonging the maintenance part of the software
- development process, which totals approx. 50% of the life cycle.
- After long debate, the C++ community accepted Ada's completeness
- of the object-oriented paradigm.
-
- This information is rather incomplete due to its freshness, so,
- does somebody have more information about the new language?
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