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,e949ee1531360632,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Vincent Marciante Subject: Announcement: The Original Booch Components Date: 2000/11/14 Message-ID: <3A11C5AE.7EB8@li.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 693677452 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 974243255 209.139.0.118 (Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:07:35 GMT) Organization: Verio MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:07:35 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: As a result of effort from Mr. Samuel T. Harris, Mr. Andreas Schulz and Mr. David Botton and the generousity of Mr. Grady Booch (software architect extraordinare,) I am pleased to announce that the Original Booch Components are now available for Free at the Ada Power web site (http://www.adapower.com/original_booch) These components are those that were designed in the 1980's by Mr. Booch using Ada 83. The fact that these components are also compilable as is with the current, 1995, version of Ada is one more indication of one of the benifits of using Ada in long-term projects. I expect other adapted versions of these components, that take advantage of "new" features of Ada, to be available at Ada Power in the future. In particularly, one version (that will be the basis of new development) that has all of component units as children of a root package named Booch and with each unit containing the most appropriate elaboration control pragma is also available now. Another version that is supposed to allow easier deployment of a subset of the components is also being discussed. Finally, I would like to dedicate the Free release of these components to all of the people at Ada Core Technologies for the extra effort that they make in providing a public version of GNAT (the only Free Ada compiler and tool chain) free to students and all other Ada enthusiasts. Vincent Marciante