From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60dd4fe7723c0ef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM Date: 2000/04/09 Message-ID: <38F0C28C.A9A80FCF@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 608716583 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8coc5e$do2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <2000Apr9.073658.1@eisner> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 9 Apr 2000 14:50:46 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-09T14:50:46+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ======================================================================