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-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!demorgan.zen.co.uk!194.72.9.35.MISMATCH!news-peer1!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110390097.532139.43430@f14g2000cwb.googlegrou NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-154-188-69.range81-154.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: titan.btinternet.com 1110840815 25829 81.154.188.69 (14 Mar 2005 22:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:53:35 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9405 comp.lang.c++:45703 comp.realtime:1486 comp.software-eng:5053 Date: 2005-03-14T22:53:35+00:00 List-Id: Greg Comeau wrote: > In article , > Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > >>Jerry Coffin a �crit : >> >>>Let's address the Ada side first. Official Ada validation was done >>>under the auspices of NIST, who delegated this task to the Ada Joint >>>Program Office. The AJPO ceased to exist years ago, and the job was >>>never turned over to anybody else when that happened. Meanwhile, NIST >>>has discontinued _all_ of its compiler validation programs, not just >>>the Ada program. Currently, both the ISO standard at a number of FIPS >>>pubs _require_ Ada compilers to be officially validated, but at least >>>in the US, there is absolutely NO agency to do that. >>> >> >>I can assure you that there is still one official ACAL (laboratory for >>performing validation): Adalog, that's my company! >> >>OK, it's not in the US. So what? Ada is an international standard. > > > Other posts seems to disagree. Please clarify for us. > Also include how and why your company is the _official_ lab. > (I'm not challenging you, but seems to me a mixed message > is coming through this thread.) Because the "Ada Compiler Assesment Authority" authorised it. Some usefull links: http://www.ada-auth.org/info.html http://www.adaic.com/compilers/testing.html http://www.adalog.fr/acal2.htm Cheers -- Martin