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Re: Feb 17 - It was 20 years ago today...
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Jeffrey Carter <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 16 Feb 2003 18:08:44 -0700
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Dirk Craeynest wrote:
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> Monday February 17, 2003, marks the 20th anniversary of Ada as a
> standardized language. On this day in 1983 the first Ada standard
> ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A was published.

I don't wish to belittle the importance of the anniversary, but the
first Ada standard was MIL-STD 1815, 1980 Dec 10 (Ada was born 1815 Dec 10).

--
Jeff Carter
"Monsieur Arthur King, who has the brain of a duck, you know."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail

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