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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f3d0e63c9d518453,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-16 12:47:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!naxos.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail From: dirk@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Feb 17 - It was 20 years ago today... Date: 16 Feb 2003 21:47:52 +0100 Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be X-Trace: naxos.belnet.be 1045428475 22937 134.58.127.12 (16 Feb 2003 20:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Summary: Show the world that Ada is very much alive! Cache-Post-Path: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be!unknown@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34158 Date: 2003-02-16T21:47:52+01:00 List-Id: Monday February 17, 2003, marks the 20th anniversary of Ada as a standardized language. On this day in 1983 the first Ada standard ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A was published. We've come a long way since, and it hasn't always been easy. But there's a lot of momentum in the international Ada community now. While there are signs that global awareness of the importance of reliable software is increasing, at the same time enthusiasm within the Ada world is growing and new activities are springing up to make Ada an even better language and even more suitable for the task of cost effectively building and evolving demanding applications in an ever changing world. I refer among others to the work done world-wide in ISO's WG9 and ARG on the evolution of the Ada standard, the involvement of the Ada-Europe and ACM SIGAda organizations to set up a light-weight infrastructure for managing upcoming "de facto" standards for APIs and libraries (ala C++'s STL), the increased interest in Ada-Europe's and SIGAda's annual conferences (new people and companies attending and exhibiting, more and good quality of submissions, etc.), increasing "on line" activities in newsgroups (comp.lang.ada), mailing lists, and on all kinds of web-sites with e.g. open source projects, and so on... I would like to invite you all to help that momentum grow and to share a bit of your Ada enthusiasm with friends and colleagues. Contact or form local user groups, write and/or talk about your professional or hobby projects, speak with professors at educational institutes in your neighborhood, etc. In short: show the world that Ada is very much alive and has a lot to offer! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (for Ada-Belgium/Europe e-mail) +-------------/ E-mail: ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.ac.be |Ada-Belgium / WWW: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/ |on Internet/ FTP: ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium +----------/ Mail-list: ada-belgium-info-request@cs.kuleuven.ac.be *** Intl. Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2003 *** June 16-20, 2003, Toulouse, France ** http://www.ada-europe.org/ ***