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Subject: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24.txt [1/1]
Date: 1996/05/24
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Ada News Brief
Week Ending: May 24, 1996
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AJPO CHIEF CHARLES ENGLE PROFILED IN FCW
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Federal Computer Week recently featured a profile on Charles
Engle, Jr., Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) Chief and leader
of the Year 2000 team at Defense Information Systems Agency.
As head of the AJPO, Engle's task is to educate people about
DoD's Ada policy and to foster the development of Ada
technology through cooperative work with DoD organizations,
vendors and the university community.
The article discusses not only Engle's current role in the
Ada community but his past involvement with Ada beginning
with his role in developing Ada 83 as a graduate student at
Stanford University. Engle stresses the importance of the
DoD's Ada policy and notes that however attractive people
may find C++, its lack of standardization and technical
limitations often make it a poor substitute for Ada.
SOURCE:
Monroe, John Stein. "Ada point man staves off chaos,"
Federal Computer Week. May 6, 1996: 58,60.
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PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD FOR INCORPORATING Ada 95 WITH JAVA
VIRTUAL MACHINE
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Peter Coffee discusses the concept of the Java Virtual
Machine becoming a target for languages other than Java in
his article, "Java Virtual Machine Brews a Revolution."
Coffee notes that Ada 95, with both object-orientation and
multiple threads, is a clear candidate for this strategy and
discusses the open beta test that is being conducted by
Intermetrics. The company is testing a technology for
mapping Ada 95 to the JVM instruction set. For further
information, check http://www.inmet.com/javadir/download/.
SOURCE:
Coffee, Peter. "Java Virtual Machine Brews a Revolution,"
PC Week. May 6, 1996: 18.
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JAVA TO TAKE OVER FOR Ada?
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Defending Sun Microsystems' claims that Java is smoother and
more efficient than Ada and that Ada will be supplanted by
Java, Tucker Taft, chief scientist of Intermetrics, Inc.,
stated, "Of course they would love to see Java as the next
Ada in DoD. It's a lot of hype. Ada has everything Java has,
and the binary code is so similar that we are able to hijack
all its strengths without losing anything." Further
defending Ada's position in the DoD is Chuck Engle, chief of
the Ada Joint Program Office, "It's not true that Java will
phase out Ada," he said. "Java is Ada 95 schematics with C++
syntax. Ada is safer. It is easier to read and understand."
SOURCE:
Finnegan, Lisa. "Ada loyalists go head-to-head with Java
promoters," Government Computer News. May 13, 1996: 38-
39.
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DISCOVER Ada 95's STRING HANDLING CAPABILITIES
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Richard Riehle's Ada column in the May issue of Journal of
Object-Oriented Programming discusses "one of the seldom
explored issues of the new Ada standard: strings." Riehle
discusses an Ada developers need for a consistent, portable,
complete definition for string-handling routines that would
eliminate the need for recoding simple string algorithms
over and over.
Riehle states that Ada 95 has remedied this issue by
defining a set of packages for both character handling and
string handling. It even includes packages for wide
characters and wide strings. Riehle continues by offering
examples and explanations for Ada 95 string capabilities.
SOURCE:
Riehle, Richard. "Stringing along with Ada 95, "Journal of
Object-Oriented Programming." May 1996: 49-54.
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THOMSON RELEASES OBJECTAda 6.2.1
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Thomson Software Products recently announced the
availability of ObjectAda 6.2.1 on Sun Microsystems' Ultra
SPARC high-speed 64-bit architecture. ObjectAda 6.2.1
provides users with the new object-oriented features of Ada
95, coupled with the power of a new high-performance
hardware platform. ObjectAda 6.2.1 offers many advanced
features to accelerate the development process, including an
optimized, object-oriented Ada compiler, software component
libraries, and a syntactic and semantic editor to reduce the
edit-compile cycle. In addition, an Ada 83-to-Ada 95
compilation switch facilitates the transition to the newly
refined Ada language.
For more information on ObjectAda 6.2.1, contact Andrea
Williams, 619/457-2700, awilliams@thomsoft.com
SOURCE:
Thomson Software Products press release from Business Wire
via Individual Inc.
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MOCK BALLOT OPEN FOR Ada BINDING TO P1003.1g
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The P1003.5c working group of the Portable Applications
Standards Committee(PASC) of the IEEE Computer Society is
conducting a mock ballot of the draft IEEE POSIX standard
for an Ada binding to P1003.1g, "Protocol Independent
Interfaces" (i.e., sockets and XTI network interfaces).
If you would like to participate in the mock ballot, or take
an active role in the working group, or if you simply have
an interest in observing the flow of information exchanged
on this subject, please subscribe to this list by sending
mail to: posix-ada-net-request@pasc.org with the word
"subscribe" in the body of the message.
SOURCE:
Shane P. McCarron, Testing Research Manger, P1003.5c Working
Group, ahby@themacs.com
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TARTAN ACQUIRED BY TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
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Tartan, Inc., a leading provider of Ada compilers, has
recently been acquired by Texas Instruments. Tartan is a
leading third-party provider of highly optimizing software
tools for developers of real-time, embedded digital signal
processing (DSP) applications.
The combined expertise of both companies should result in
producing the industry's highest performance DSP software
tools. "Tartan is the clear technical leader in Ada and C++
compilers within the DSP industry, and this acquisition
doubles our DSP development support resources. TI will be
able to take advantage of Tartan's expertise and technology
to dramatically accelerate TMS320 DSP technology development
and to provide the best DSP customer application support in
the industry," said Mike Hames, TI Semiconductor Group vice
president and worldwide DSP manager.
SOURCE:
Texas Instruments press release, May 6, 1996.
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Ada 95 WORKSHOP
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A workshop titled "Software Methods and Tools for Ada 95" is
being organized for September 16-20, 1996 in Brest, France.
For more information, contact:
Yvon Kermarrec
Telecom Bretagne
BP 832
29285 Brest, France
e-mail : yvon.kermarrec@enst-bretagne.fr
http://www-info.enst-bretagne.fr/~kermarre/
Ada95Workshop.html
SOURCE:
Dr. Yvon Kermarrec
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1996-05-27 0:00 ` Ada News Brief - 96-05-24.txt [1/1] Tucker Taft
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Andreas Zeller
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-01 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-01 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Richard Riehle
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Brian N. Miller
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Bill Brooks
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Bjarne Stroustrup <9758-26353> 0112760
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Java Risks (should be Java mis-speak) The Right Reverend Colin James III
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <4omoh4$k0f@ansible.bbt.com <4ov36b$1665@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Richard Riehle
1996-05-27 0:00 ` Ada News Brief - 96-05-24.txt [1/1] Brian Rogoff
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Jon S Anthony
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Java Risks David Hopwood
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24 Richard Riehle
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Bob Crispen
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Imonics Corporation
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Peter Wentworth
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Bill Brennamw
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Brian N. Miller
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
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