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: Tucker Taft Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM Date: 2000/04/11 Message-ID: <38F38EB8.CE2F731E@averstar.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 609805500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8coc5e$do2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <2000Apr9.073658.1@eisner> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@inmet2.burl.averstar.com X-Trace: inmet2.burl.averstar.com 955485881 10575 141.199.8.164 (11 Apr 2000 20:44:41 GMT) Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Apr 2000 20:44:41 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-11T20:44:41+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. > > Conventional wisdom is that when a new generation of the standard > is created, those doing so should look first to widely implemented > add-ons to the current standard. The Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG) of Working Group 9 (WG9) of SC-22 of ... of ISO is looking at individual amendments to the Ada standard. There is a conscious desire among most of us *not* to create a new "generation" of the standard, but rather to periodically release an amendment that captures the consensus thinking on critical enhancements to the standard. In addition, we are actively working on a "corrigendum" document, which is an official update to the standard for fixing bugs, as opposed to introducing enhancements, in the Ada reference manual. The corrigendum should be out within a year or so, though most vendors will support the "fixes" sooner than that (many already do). The schedule for any amendments remains TBD. The address "ada-comment@acm.org" is the official place to send comments on the Ada standard. The format for such comments is given in the reference manual. (Note the new address!) -- -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools) AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA