Re: Q: Ravenscar Guide

[Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

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|"Looking for the                                        |
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| "Guide for the use of the Ada Ravenscar Profile        |
|  in high integrity systems", ISO/IEC 24718,            |
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|I noticed that the German title on the quite official   |
|DIN/Beuth site is different.  It says "highly-integrated|
|systems" for "high integrity systems", in German:       |
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| "Leitfaden zu Verwendung des Ada Ravenscar Profils in  |
| hoch-integrierten Systemen" [c&p]                      |
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|That's not the same thing, is it?                       |
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|Assuming they sell the English original, there is no    |
|issue.  (I think the high officials have asked for the  |
|report to be made freely available.)                    |
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|An English report by Burns, Dobbing, and Vardanega      |
|is freely available here and there (York, Karlsruhe)."  |
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That is not a correct translation. This would not be the only
mistranslation from English to German. For example, "real-time"
(fixed-time, Festzeit-) is often mistranslated as "Echtzeit"
(actual-time). From Dict.org :
"[..]
5. (Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable,
        as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in
        distinction from personal or movable property.
        [1913 Webster]
[..]
 9: (of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of
          land and buildings; real estate"
[..]"