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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-10 21:51:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!news.netcologne.de!unlisys!news.snafu.de!boavista!nobody From: Michael Erdmann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 06:53:53 +0200 Organization: [Posted via] Inter.net Germany GmbH Message-ID: <3CB516E1.9030008@snafu.de> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: tc06-n66-024.de.inter.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22345 Date: 2002-04-11T06:53:53+02:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > Michael Erdmann wrote in message <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de>... > >>Hallo all, >> >>i am wondering how standards are eveloving in the Ada community. >>In the Java Community there is a process called Java Community >>Process (JCP, http://www.jcp.org/) >> >>Is there something comparabel in the Ada communitiy? I gues >>if there would be something like this there would be more >>dynamic in the Ada 95 community. >> > > I'm not sure if this answers your question... > > The standard for the Ada Programming Language (and a variety of related > standards) are managed by ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG9 > (http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG9/). Because these are ISO > standards, WG9 has to follow the procedures for creating ISO standards. > Most of the actual work of fixing and improving the language standard > occurs in a subcommittee of WG9 known as the ARG (Ada Rappetour Group). > The ARG membership includes a wide variety of Ada vendors and users. > Pretty much all that is required to informally monitor the process is to > join the Ada-Comment mailing list (see > http://www.adaic.org/standards/articles/comment.html.) You can look into > the ARG's web site at http://www.ada-auth.org/ais.html (although that > site is designed to be functional, not to impress people with our > process). Thanks, yes this answers my question. I personally think this way of working is fairly outdated since it does not realy take the internet as a comminication media into accout. If you compare Ada 95 with Java, then the interesting points are not the languages it self, but the quick development of supporting components around it. If you take Ada 95 there is only a very limited set of predefined libraries standarized and thats it, nothing else. With JPC this is completly different! What i like to say it that not the language Ada is the illness, but the process around it which does not generate the dynamic as i would expect it from a language which is a live. Have there any attempts made to change the process towards a more dynmaic way of working? Regards M.Erdmann > > Randy Brukardt > Editor, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG9 ARG > > > > >