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A farewell to Ada with null (1992)

by ummonk on 5/14/25, 2:59 PM with 4 comments

  • by etrez on 5/16/25, 7:17 PM

    Interesting letter! His concerns were legitimate regarding complexity, but most of the items in his list of features are indispensable. Basically Ada 83 was a pre-version lacking key features for practical use, although it had already cool features (exceptions, modularity, generics, tasks, ...).
  • by xpasky on 5/14/25, 4:38 PM

    What happenned next? I see Ada9X became Ada95 (this post was from 1993) and Jean D. Ichbiah went on to work on stylus computer interfaces. Did the standard see a substantial revision yet after this letter?