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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-18 12:02:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.bu.edu!inmet!not-for-mail From: Tucker Taft Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:01:36 -0500 Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Message-ID: <3A674BA0.ECA8A6E0@averstar.com> References: <979792273.15897.0.nnrp-10.9e98cc46@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: nebula.burl.averstar.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: inmet2.burl.averstar.com 979848096 7060 141.199.8.77 (18 Jan 2001 20:01:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@inmet2.burl.averstar.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jan 2001 20:01:36 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4184 Date: 2001-01-18T20:01:36+00:00 List-Id: Julian Morrison wrote: > > Two things I'd like to see included: Java-style "interfaces" with > multiple inheritance, and cross-platform sockets as a standard annex. Java-style interfaces are proposed in the Amendment AI 251; see: http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin-acats/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00251.DOC?rev=1.3 I would agree that some kind of sockets interface should be considered, something on the level of java.net.Socket and java.net.ServerSocket. Perhaps also an HTTP servlet interface. These might want to be "secondary" standards, or perhaps part of an "Internet" annex. -- -Tucker Taft stt@avercom.net http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Chief Technology Officer, AverCom, Inc. (A Titan Company) Burlington, MA USA (AverCom was formed 1/1/01 from the Commercial Division of AverStar) (http://www.averstar.com/services/ebusiness_applications.html)