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: 103376,8c424d8135e68278 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-11 20:39:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C16DF74.766B9FF8@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada2005 References: <9v4jsj$bd1$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 04:39:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.204.28 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1008131956 209.86.204.28 (Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:39:16 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:39:16 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:39:18 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17815 Date: 2001-12-12T04:39:16+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > Ada95 was known as Ada9x up until right around 1995 when it became clear that > 1995 would be the year that the current (mostly finished) draft would be > approved. I can remember early versions of Gnat that referred to the language as > Ada9x. It was actually expected in 1994 but slipped over to 1995 Jan. Barnes even had a book published with "Ada 94" in the title. Since Ada 83 -> Ada 95 took 12 years, I expect the next version to be Ada [20]07. -- Jeff Carter "My brain hurts!" Monty Python's Flying Circus