Article 8517 of comp.std.c: Path: winternet.com!solon.com!not-for-mail From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada,comp.std.c Subject: C9X, Ada 9X to merge! Date: 1 Apr 1996 21:58:27 -0600 Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4jq8l3$c5f@solutions.solon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com Xref: winternet.com comp.lang.c:94649 comp.lang.ada:27499 comp.std.c:8517 In an unexpected move, the C and Ada standards committees decided today to open the 2nd quarter of '96 by committing to merging their language standards by Feb 30, 2000. They will be striving to produce a language which retains as much as possible of the essential flavor of existing Ada and C implementations, while gaining all of the maintenance nightmares of both languages. Ken Thompson, creator of the C language, was seen going into his office, carrying an Ada reference manual, and an X-ACTO knife, muttering "and now the cleansing begins". Happy Holidays! -s -- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach. C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really! FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.] The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html