Re: Summary of Diana Status

[stt@inmet.inmet.com]

Re: The DIANA standard.

Intermetrics did produce a Revision 4.0 of DIANA,
but it was never used for anything I know of.  As far as changes
between 3.0 and 4.0, we separated out the source-reconstruction
stuff so that it could conveniently be omitted when perfect
source-reconstruction was not of interest, and we made sure
that the node-class structure was a pure hierarchy, rather
than the multi-inheritance graph structure in the earlier Diana.
This allows it to map more directly to an Ada variant record
or to a single-inheritance OOP type.

The Report is called "DIANA REFERENCE MANUAL"
Draft Revision 4, internally numbered IR-MD-078.  It was prepared for
the Naval Research Laboratory under contract N00014-84-C-2445.
You may be able to get copies from our Bethesda office for
a reproduction/shipping fee.  I don't know if you can get copies
from NRL.  At the time, Rudy Krutar was the person at NRL responsible
for the DIANA maintenance contract.

Here is our Bethesda address:

    Intermetrics, Inc.
    4733 Bethesda Avenue
    Bethesda, MD  20814

-Tucker Taft
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA  02138