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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
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Subject: Re: What is Ada9x?
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Date: 2 Apr 91 04:50:05 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.203028.13158@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> 841613t@aucs.acadiau.ca (Donald Tyzuk) writes:
>So what is Ada9x?. (I am a know-nothing student, interested
>in Ada).  8-)
>-- 

Undoubtedly there are other readers, students and others, to whom 
this alphabet soup is equally impenetrable, so I'm posting this publicly.

Ada9x is the project sponsored by the Ada Joint Program Office (US
Dept. of Defense) to produce a revised Ada language standard.
Under ANSI rules, this project was started in 1988, 5 years after the original
standard was adopted (Jan. 1983).

In standards-speak, Ada9x means "revised Ada, to be adopted some time in
the 1990's." The "x" means "we're not sure what this digit will be."
The current project plan (see the transition plan I posted a couple of
weeks ago) is showing x=3, that is we'll see a revised Ada adopted in
1993.

If you'd like more info, write me by e-mail. Others more knowledgeable
than me in the Ada9x process are cordially invited to expand on my
brief note here.

I have no formal connection to the Ada9x group; I'm just a professor
who teaches a lot of Ada and likes it.

Mike Feldman