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message: The article reads:
A double-dash ("--"), resembling an em dash, denotes comment text. 
I suspect that "double-dash" is incorrect, with the correct statement being "double-hyphen".
But I'm not sure, so I will leave this for someone else.
Karl gregory jones (talk) 17:04, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a hyphen-minus, to give it its Unicode name. It is the one and only ASCII character to be a horizontal line at x-height in the character cell. It is the dash in ASCII, among its multitude of duties.--Prosfilaes (talk) 04:17, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double-dash?  or double-hypen? 

message: It's a bit disturbing to add a logo to the page, that has no "official" status. It was a result of a contest on Gnoga, for business purposes: "As part of my work on the building the business side of Gnoga to advocate Ada to the applications market, I realized that there is not a single modern slick Ada mascot (that doesn't mean the mascot replaces Lady Ada!). So, as I always do, I put my time and money where my mouth is :)". I don't think Wikipedia shall endorse this, and I'll thus remove the image from this page. 7zz (talk) 08:47, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do you care? I mean, Wikipedia's role is descriptive in nature, not prescriptive, right? —GreenWeasel11 (talk) 20:36, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think the logo has to be "official", but there does need to be evidence that it's widely used and accepted. It doesn't seem to be used on the web sites of the Ada Information Clearinghouse or Adacore, a leading Ada vendor, or on the covers of books about Ada. --Macrakis (talk) 20:48, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what I was thinking; I looked around and didn't see it in many places, so I don't think there are grounds for reverting the edit, but I see nothing wrong in principle with using a symbol not officially approved by the language designers. —GreenWeasel11 (talk) 21:22, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, that's debatable. But if, say, a commercial implementation has a well-known logo, I don't think it's ok to put this logo on the programming language page, that is not limited to this commercial implementation. It's similar here: apparently the goal is to promote Ada in a business context, and this is not endorsed by the wider Ada community. A kind of POV-pushing, maybe. But if we all agree, for various reasons, that the logo should not be here, that's fine. 7zz (talk) 12:52, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo 

message: Should this article reference / discuss SPARK, which is derived from ada?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.63.195.185 (talk) 07:44, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to SPARK? 

message: what about 1st party claims it was a disinformation hoax? see https://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/sigplannotices/gigo-1997-04.html Gcbwiki (talk) 04:04, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd point out that that was published in early April, and that even Reddit classifies it is humo(u)r. 81.149.7.120 (talk) 22:21, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoax language 

message: In the subtypes box, Hours is defined as "range 0 .. 12;" with the comment "-- at most 12 Hours to work a day". However 0..12 in most notations covers 13 hours... is the article correct? 81.149.7.120 (talk) 22:24, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hours is defined further up as a mod 24.  The subtype is Working_Hours, which is used to keep track of a person's hours spent at work, where the comments give this particular employer's rules that Monday through Friday are the only working days and someone can work anywhere from no hours to twelve hours during any of those days.  Wasted Time R (talk) 22:52, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subtypes and range 

message: I've taken out the incorrect claim the fly-by-wire system on the Boeing 777 is the Honeywell AIMS, AIMS is the Flight Management System, covering stuff like cabin displays and maintenance, the actual fly-by-wire system on the 777 is the Primary Flight Control System, produced by BAE Systems Rochester, which fortunately was also written in Ada, so I've substituted that (full disclosure, I was part of the PFCS software team). I've expanded the comment with various other flight control/fly-by-wire systems written using Ada.86.14.138.8 (talk) 21:18, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  AIMS is not the 777's fly-by-wire system