Ada-Belgium - "Ada 83 to 95 porting experiences" - Wed 2000-02-23 20:00

Ada-Belgium - "Ada 83 to 95 porting experiences" - Wed 2000-02-23 20:00

[Dirk Craeynest]

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      Ada-Belgium is proud to announce a technical presentation by
                  Philippe Waroquiers of Eurocontrol on

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                   Wednesday, February 23, 2000, 20:00

              at the U.L.B., Department of Computer Science
        Campus de la Plaine, building NO, room NO9.06 (9th floor)
           Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, B-1050 Brussels

         (after the 2000 Ada-Belgium General Assembly at 19:00)
                                   
    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

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Announcement
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Ada-Belgium will hold its seventh annual General Assembly on Wednesday,
February 23, 2000, at 19:00, at the address mentioned above.  The
official convocation is distributed separately to members and is also
available on the Ada-Belgium web-server.

At 20:00 the General Assembly will be followed by a technical
presentation plus Q&A, by Philippe Waroquiers from Eurocontrol,
Brussels, Belgium.

Everyone interested is welcome: you don't have to be a member to attend
this presentation.

Abstract
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"Experiences porting large applications from Ada 83 to Ada 95"

Eurocontrol/CFMU has developed two major applications for Air Traffic
Flow Management and Flight Plan Processing.  These applications,
comprising well over a million Ada 83 statements, have been operational
since 1995.

Major evolutions of these two applications are planned in the near
future, including integration of radar data and the use of CORBA to
interface with components written in other languages.  To facilitate
this, we are currently evaluating the switch from Ada 83 to Ada 95.

The first objective is to have the current applications ported to two
different Ada 95 compilers allowing the comparative evaluation of the
performance and quality of the two compilers and their associated
tools.

In a second phase, Ada 95 language features will be gradually introduced
into the applications.

The presentation will focus on the porting exercise:
  * Impact of incompatibilities between Ada83 and Ada95.
  * Differences of behaviour between compilers and impact on code.
  * Quality of tools.
  * Other lessons learned.

Participation
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Everyone interested is welcome at either or both parts of this meeting.
The event is free.

If you are interested in attending the General Assembly or the technical
presentation, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by e-mail
(see below).  Although no formal registration is required, this helps us
preparing the event.

All Ada-Belgium members have a vote at the General Assembly, can add
items to the agenda, and can be a candidate for a position on the Board
(see the convocation for more details).

If are a member but have not yet renewed your affiliation please do so
by paying the appropriate fee before the General Assembly (1999-members
receive also a printed request via normal mail, including vouchers for
free Walnut Creek double "Ada and Software Engineering" CD-ROMs).
If you are interested to become a new member, please register by filling
out the appended 2000 membership application form and by paying the
appropriate fee before the General Assembly.
Early renewal or registration ensures you receive the full Ada-Belgium
membership benefits (including the Ada-Europe indirect membership
benefits package).  See our web-pages for all details.

We still have a limited number of documentation sets available that were
distributed freely at the Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar.  Each set includes
a.o. the Seminar Proceedings and the latest Walnut Creek double "Ada
and Software Engineering" CD-ROMs (a special edition for SIGAda'99 and
Ada-Belgium'99).  These sets will be available on a first-come first-
serve basis at the General Assembly for current and new Ada-Belgium
members.

Please inform us via e-mail if you are interested in receiving the free
documentation set and/or CD-ROMs, so we can bring enough copies to the
event.

Directions
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This event takes place at the premises of the Universit� Libre de
Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, Campus de la
Plaine, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.  Exact location is "Salle des
Professeurs", building NO, 9th floor, room NO9.06.

An access plan to the Campus de la Plaine of the U.L.B. is available
via our web-pages.  Parking facilities are at access no. 2 (parking
Fraiteur, the closest) or no. 4 (parking UAE).

Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels!

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium Board
ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

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                            Acknowledgements
                  
 We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
     activities: ACT Europe, John Robinson & Associates, Katholieke
 Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Koninklijke Militaire School / Ecole
    Royale Militaire (K.M.S./E.R.M.), OFFIS nv/sa, Rational Software
  Corporation, Top Graph'X, and Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).
                  
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