From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f805ceba146bd74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-12 23:38:46 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!inmet!dsd!stt From: stt@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 7 Oct 1994 Message-ID: Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. References: <1994Oct7.181343.9070@sei.cmu.edu> <37haa0$baf@scoop.eco.twg.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 03:32:27 GMT Date: 1994-10-13T03:32:27+00:00 List-Id: In article <37haa0$baf@scoop.eco.twg.com>, Lance Kibblewhite wrote: > ... >So is "Ada 95" more 'correct' then "Ada 94"? Not particularly. The Ada community can call the new revision of Ada anything they want ;-). Note that "new" Fortran is called Fortran 90, even though it was well after Dec. 31, 1990 when it became a standard. Personally, I still like Ada 9X -- it seems a little flashier than Ada 94 or Ada 95 (though of course Windows 95 is giving some cache' to Ada 95 -- NOT). In any case, to answer your question more seriously, the most "correct" name will reflect the date that ISO assigns to it, based on when they officially publish it. Ada 9X is almost certain to be "approved" as an International Standard during 1994 (in November), but it is not clear exactly how long it will take the wheels of ISO to crank out the official publication of the new Standard. The "full" ISO designation will either be ISO/IEC 8652:1994 or ISO/IEC 8652:1995, depending on the RPM of their wheels. The ANSI designation will be ANSI/ISO 8652:199? >-- Lance. S. Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com Ada 9X Mapping/Revision Team Intermetrics, Inc. Cambridge, MA 02138