SEIC News, W/E March 21, 1997

SEIC News, W/E March 21, 1997

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Software Engineering News Brief
Week Ending:  March 21, 1997

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NRC "ADA AND BEYOND" REPORT ON THE WEB
Topic: Ada

The National Research Council Committee on Past and Present Contexts for 
the Use of Ada in the Department of Defense report, "Ada and Beyond:  
Software Policies for the Department of Defense," is now available on 
the Web at:  

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/reader.cgi?auth=free&label=ul.book.0309055970

On October 31, 1996, the Committee had made several recommendations 
including: 1. Require Ada for DoD warfighting software; 2. Drop Ada 
requirement for other DoD software; 3. Invest $15M/year for Ada
infrastructure - or drop Ada requirement entirely; 4. Embed programming 
language decisions into a Software Engineering Plan Review process.  The 
rationale for these findings are contained in the on-line report.

SOURCE:  AdaIC

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ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES THE FIRST 100% ADA 95 VALIDATIONS
Topic: Ada

Ada Core Technologies is pleased to announce the receipt of formal 
notification from NIST that our recent Ada 95 validations under ACVC 
2.0.1 have been officially registered. These validations apply to:

   GNAT 4.00 SPARCstation 5 under Solaris 2.5.1
   GNAT 4.00 SGI Power Indigo2 under IRIX 6.2
   GNAT 4.00 SGI O2 under IRIX 6.3

These are the first validations from any vendor that cover 100% of 
applicable tests in not only the core language, but also in all the 
special annexes. The total number of unsupported tests is zero in all 
categories. GNAT is the only Ada 95 technology that fully supports all 
required features of the Ada 95 core language and annexes as defined in 
the international standard. 

For more information, contact:

Nancy I. Cruz, Business Manager
Ada Core Technologies, Inc.
73 Fifth Avenue, Suite 11B
New York, NY  10003
(212) 620-7300 x 117
(212) 807 0162 Fax

SOURCE:  Ada Core Technologies, Inc.

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