Re: Ada Common Environment (ACE)

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@MAIL.CTS.COM>]

To: Bob Mathis et al.
From: Bob Leif

At 10:07 PM 7/16/96 EDT, you wrote:
>Ada Resource Association Begins Program to Standardize
>How Ada is Used and Implemented with External Services
>
>Coordination With Vendors Designed to Make Ada the Most Portable Language
>
>Press Contact:  Art Stewart (617) 641-1225
>E-mail:  ArtStewart@aol.com
>
>Technical Contact:  Bob Mathis (614) 538-9232
>E-mail:  73313.2671@compuserve.com
>
>
>(July 16, 1996 -- Columbus, OH)  The Ada Resource Association (ARA), the
>professional trade association engaged in meeting the expanding requirements of
>the worldwide Ada user community, has begun a program that will standardize how
>Ada is used and implemented with external services.
>
>The Association has formed the Ada Common Environment (ACE), which will
>coordinate with Ada compiler and tools vendors to ensure that all Ada
>implementations support standard external interfaces.  The ARA's intention
is to
>build on the new international standard for Ada95 -- which provides many
>facilities for integrating multi-language software systems -- with the goal of
>making Ada the most portable language in software development.

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This sounds very good.  I believe that ACE will be very useful. However, it
still would make sense to be able to formally include ACE, ASIS, and other
standards in Ada as Annexes in less than 11 or so years before the next
language revision.   I believe that your and others' excellent standards
creation activities are a very good argument for making Ada a multivolume
ISO standard. This will provide the flexibility to add Annexes, as needed,
and in addition will add the capacity to react in a timely manner to
unforseen problems, such as the call-back problem Ada 83 had with both
Microsoft and X windows.

Yours,
Bob Leif

Robert C. Leif, Ph.D., PMIAC,
Vice President & Research Director
Ada_Med, A Division of Newport Instruments
Tel. & Fax (619) 582-0437