Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM

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

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> I try to keep up with this newsgroup, and I have not heard anything
> about any current official venue for creating a next generation of
> the standard.
> 
Is there some planned ISO committee or some such to start taking
revision suggestions to the language? If Ada holds to the original model
of a new standard every 10 or so years, I'd think now would be the time
to start discussions.

Actually, I don't think Ada95 needs a whole lot of revision. The new
language plugged most, if not all, of the flaws in Ada83 and I don't see
any major new programming theories that need language support in which
you can't get there from here. Aside from maybe filing down a few burrs
here and there, I think what Ada05 needs is merely some additional
annexes that spell out more optional libraries. (Data structures? Math
libraries? Bindings to specific platforms? I really like the model that
exists now for annexes: "You don't have to do this if you don't want to,
but if you *do* support this feature, it must conform to the
following....")

Anybody heard of any activity from the group working on Ada libraries?

MDC
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