On 2 Feb 2005 at 15:29, Rick Engebretson wrote:
Please include the full context of my earlier comments, or don't quote me at all.
The entire text of your comment in the message I quoted was:
I don't believe Ada was ever intended as a general purpose, commercial, programming language. But the pascal syntax, and the evolution of new capabilities closely resembles the dos pc product "turbopascal." That was all I was trying to say.
Further, before GPC, pascal conformant arrays were not available to me AFAIK.
Rick.
I was only addressing your mistaken belief in the first sentence. I had no comment on your other statements.
Perhaps missile guidance systems will indeed soon be available at Wal-Mart.
Undoubtedly.
But I knew some of the originators here in Minnesota, and I know that was not their intent.
Odd that it's stated in the Rationale then.
-- Dave