From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom8=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Tue Jul 5 20:30:04 2016 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 540CC9DB161; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 20:30:04 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from mail.jpl.nasa.gov (smtp.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.139.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29889DB160 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 20:30:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [137.79.7.57] (math.jpl.nasa.gov [137.79.7.57]) by smtp.jpl.nasa.gov (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id u65ITxcp012250 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128 bits) verified NO) for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 11:30:00 -0700 Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5746) Units of measure From: Van Snyder Reply-To: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov To: sc22wg5 In-Reply-To: References: <20160619135920.D0F3F358287@www.open-std.org> <20160629112043.BF09F3587AF@www.open-std.org> <20160629123517.185A635828D@www.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Yes Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:29:59 -0700 Message-ID: <1467743399.11729.20.camel@math.jpl.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 (2.32.3-36.el6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-Sender: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov X-AUTH: Authorized Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 19:54 +0000, Bill Long wrote: > I believe Ada had that as well. Both failed languages. I wouldn't call Ada "failed." JPL has more than 300,000 lines of Ada in orbit around Saturn. WG9 has more members than WG5. The fact that Ada is more popular in Europe than in the United States doesn't mean it's "failed."