Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance

tmoran@xxxxxxx wrote:

  Of course "The C Programming Language" was published 5 years before the
Ada 83 RM, and Ada 95, like C++, is about 10 years old.  Perhaps for this
real-time, satellite based anti-missile system he means Microsoft's .NET
language, C#.  Does "Space News" print letters to the editor with factual
corrections?  Pointing out the ignorance of someone in authority is always
amusing.

Let's be accurate. C dates to 1970. Ada dates to 1980 (MIL-STD-1815 is dated 1980 Dec 10). C++ dates to 1982 (I'd argue that since backwards compatibility with C was an important design criterion, it dates to 1970 :). The dates of the standards or publications are meaningless in determining the "modernity" of a language, except for Ada.

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Jeff Carter
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