Re: What's new in Ada95

[kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)]

In <4jrn13$9oe@news4.digex.net> Mike Ibarra <ibarra> writes:
> I need to find a book or in-depth article which outlines the new features in
> Ada95 as compared to Ada83.

I was about to respond to this by e-mail, but there's no valid e-mail
address in your article's headers.  Since this is probably of general
interest, I'll post to the newsgroup.

There's a document called "chg83" which is extracted from the annotated
reference manual.  The Postscript version is about 100 pages long (but
don't panic, it goes into a lot of nit-picking detail).
 
It's available in compressed or uncompressed ASCII or Postscript.
 
Under the directory
 
    <ftp://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/public/AdaIC/standards/95lrm_rat/>
 
see any of
 
    v6.0.compressed/chg83.doc.zip
    v6.0.compressed/chg83.ps.zip
    v6.0/chg83.doc
    v6.0/chg83.ps
 
Another useful document is the Compatibility Guide, available at
 
    <ftp://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/public/AdaIC/docs/compat-guide/>  
 
It's not a complete list of changes, but a list of upward 
incompatibilities between Ada 83 and Ada 95.

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