Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> There was a very concious effort in Ada 95 to make the document
> more precise, even if at the expense of readability and
> accessibility. The result is that the Ada 95 document is indeed
> more precise, but it is also MUCH harder to read (at least I
> think so, and I am one of the people who can read the RM for
> the most part).
> 
What occurs to me is that it would be an interesting project to take the
ARM in hypertext and annotate it with more hypertext that explains the
intended usage or "how to" aspects of the various sections. You look up
a specific feature and get the precise definition of what it means, but
can punch into someone's "gloss" on the subject where there might be
example code, plain-English explanations of how the feature was intended
to be used, etc.

Certainly we have the AARM, but that was obviously aimed at a different
crowd and IMHO is less accessible than the rest of the standard. Those
annotations could have been made into hyperlinks as well.

MDC
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