A physical comparison of Ada 95 and Ada 2005

A physical comparison of Ada 95 and Ada 2005

[Niklas Holsti]

A few days ago I received an eagerly awaited Springer hard-copy of the 
Ada 2005 LRM (courtesy of Ada Europe, to whom many thanks). Being less 
busy than usual I have had some time to study this work and compare it 
to the earlier Springer LRM for Ada 95, with the following results:

                  Ada 95   Ada 2005
Weight (g)    :     985       1205
Thickness (mm):      32         27

The height and width are the same, so the overhead in terms of desk-top 
area is unchanged, which is good. The result of this comparison is thus 
that Ada 2005 is 44.9% denser than Ada 95, as represented by their 
respective LRMs. The analogous comparison based on the text of the LRMs 
was not in scope for this study :-)

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
niklas holsti tidorum fi
       .      @       .

Re: A physical comparison of Ada 95 and Ada 2005

[prichtmyer]

Perhaps Ada 2005 is not the only (as they say here) "dense" thing
around  :-)

Yeah - I have a little too much time too

thanks for the laugh
Peter

It WAS supposed to be funny, right?   :-)

Niklas Holsti wrote:
> A few days ago I received an eagerly awaited Springer hard-copy of the
> Ada 2005 LRM (courtesy of Ada Europe, to whom many thanks).
-- deleted some --
 The result of this comparison is thus
> that Ada 2005 is 44.9% denser than Ada 95, as represented by their
> respective LRMs. The analogous comparison based on the text of the LRMs
> was not in scope for this study :-)
>
> --
> Niklas Holsti
> Tidorum Ltd
> niklas holsti tidorum fi
>        .      @       .