Software Engineering News Brief--W/E Oct. 25

Software Engineering News Brief--W/E Oct. 25

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MacAda COMPILER AVAILABLE ON THE WWW

An Ada compiler for the Mac is now available on the 
Internet.  Tenon Intersystems, Inc., has made an early 
version of the first MacAda compiler, GNAT-Mac, available on 
the World Wide Web (http://gnat-mac.com/macada/).  A final 
version is scheduled to be released this fall, and will be 
packaged with Tenon's MachTen Unix on-the-Mac software.

For more information, contact Tenon Intersystems: 805/963-
6983; 
http://www.tenon.com/

SOURCE: MacUser  Oct 1996 v12 n10 p27(1)

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UPDATES TO ARMY  SOFTWARE REUSE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
AND SOFTWARE REUSE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

An article in the October 1996 edition of the ARC News  
reported that the Army is updating its 1992 Software Reuse  
Implementation Strategy and Software Reuse Implementation  
Plan.  The updates were made to conform to the new Army  
Reuse Policy (established in April 1996) and the November 
1995 DoD Software Reuse and Vision Strategy.  Copies of the  
new plan will be available after November 1, 1996, and can 
be accessed on the World Wide Web at 
http://arc_www.belvoir.army.mil/odisc4/odisc4.htm.

For more information, contact LTC Edward Poore, 703/614-
2422

Source: ARC News.  October 1996: 4.

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DEVELOPING A REUSE PLAN

An article in the October 14, 1996 issue of ComputerWorld 
provides basic guidelines for developing an organizational 
software reuse plan.  Reuse Revealed, by Robert L. Scheir  
provides four affordable and achievable steps for developing 
a reuse plan.  For each step, there is an analysis of why it 
should be taken and of the costs and risks involved.

The four steps in order are: build the business case for 
reuse, build the infrastructure for reuse, build on what you 
have, and build momentum now.

Source: ComputerWorld.  October 14, 1996: 103-104.

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NEW CLASSES AT THE ARMY REUSE CENTER

An article in the October 1996 issue of ARC News outlines 
three new courses at the Army Reuse Center (ARC).  The new 
courses will begin in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 
1997.  The titles are: Management Introduction to Software 
Reuse, Initiating Software Reuse, and Implementing Software 
Reuse.

For more information about how to register for these 
classes, contact the ARC 703/806-3864.

Source: ARC News, October 1996:  6.

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OBJECTAda REVIEWED

The October 14, 1996 issue of PC Week includes a review of 
ObjectAda 7.0.  ObjectAda 7.0 for Windows 
Professional Edition was developed by Thomson Software 
Products and released last month.  Writer/Analyst Peter 
Coffee looks at the features of ObjectAda (most notably that 
it can compile to Java bytecodes) and compares the compiler to similar 
compilers 
developed in C++, Delphi, and FORTRAN.

In addition to his product review, Mr. Coffee also states in 
the article that "Any shop looking for a non-
proprietary object-oriented language will find Ada 95 an 
attractive alternative to Smalltalk, C++, or Java."  

For more information about ObjectAda 7.0, contact Thomson 
Software Products at 619/457-2700.

Source: PC Week, October 14, 1996:  91-92.
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