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Subject: Re: Comparison of languages for CS1 and CS2
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Nathan G. Raymond (xray@cs.brandeis.edu) wrote:
: ...
: Skimming the Ada chapter, I came across mention that "the DoD hols a 
: trademark on Ada, and legally no on else can produce a subset, superset, 
: or variant of any kind" - does this constrain the development of Ada in 
: general purpose areas compared to other languages?  How can a language 
: tied so closely to the DoD ever hope to be embraced by industry?

The trademark was dropped long ago.  DoD has no legal control
over the name "Ada."  Ada 95 is an ISO standard, not a Mil-Std,
and is administered like any other ISO standard.

: Nathan Raymond
: xray@cs.brandeis.edu
: nraymond@genesis.nred.ma.us
: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~xray

-Tucker Taft  stt@inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc.
