Re: official recommendations of Ada

[Peter Amey <pna@praxis-cs.co.uk>]

Phil Thornley wrote:
> 
> "Hambut" <hfrumblefoot@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:fb75c450.0107171332.18376cd6@posting.google.com...
> .. lots of useful stuff, including:
> 
> > Final point to note is that there is a very useful document being
> > produced by an ISO committee (The Annex H Rapporteur(sp?) Group)
> > called "Programming Languages - Guide for the Use of the Ada
> > Programming Language in High Integrity Systems".
> 
> The work on this finished some time ago and it was published early last
> year. The official designation is ISO/IEC DTR 15942.
> 
> I can't find a link
> > to a downloadable copy immediately.  Perhaps another reader can help?
> 
> The published version is under ISO/IEC copyright, so you have to buy it
> from your local standards source. However a very late draft version is
> at:
> 
> http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG9/n359.pdf
> 
> I believe that this is still under ISO/IEC copyright, so I guess you can
> read it, but not copy it further. An earlier (but not substantially
> different) version that isn't under ISO/IEC copyright was published in
> Ada Letters - Volume XVIII Number 4, July/August 1998.
> 

Further to the above, Jim Moore, convener of ISO WG9 has taken steps to
try and get the HRG report made freely available.  There is a mechanism
for doing this for "technical reports" as opposed to "standards".

Peter