Re: Ada 200X?

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, jlvojir1 wrote:
> Excuse me sire,

Yikes, that is way too formal! There are no royals on c.l.a. Ada is a 
language for the people.

>     I ran acrosssome articles that you have writen in the Ada news
> group.  I am purchasing books on the subject and having previous
> experience with C/C++ I hope to make the conversion painlessly and join
> your elit group, but a comment you said in your letter confused me.

Ada programmers elite? Nahh, we're really salt-of-the-earth types, you
know, two fisted keyboard ticklers bangin' out code at high speed.

> Using the term "Ada 200x" I have never heard of this proposed standard
> your where you just saying that whenever the next standard appears that
> the team should add this.  

Ada 200X is a shorthand for whatever we want added in to the current
standard. There is no Ada 200X, no secret cabal (like the ML-2000 group) 
working on it. If and when there really is an Ada 200X project, you'll 
know about it, and it will conduct its work in public. It has already been
mentioned here that there probably will not be a project of the magnitude 
of the Ada 9X project, though I imagine that there are some fairly minor 
issues like the "withing problem" (sorry for calling it minor jgv :-) that 
will probably be addressed at some point in the near future.

>I want to learn the newest Ada standard, the

That would be ANSI/ISO/IEC-8652:1995.

> notion that another standard is sneaking up just after I have invested
> money and time in this venture and then be left behind with old news.

Time spent learning Ada 95 is not wasted. Even if there was a new standard 
coming in 7 years, it would have to be upwardly compatible. 

I hope this helps.

-- Brian