Dirk Craeynest wrote: > > 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