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-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!ciril.fr!not-for-mail From: Yermat 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, 21 Mar 2005 18:10:36 +0100 Organization: CIRIL, Nancy, France Message-ID: References: <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <19167262.fkuVsrGd7i@linux1.krischik.com> <1111424076.416236.204890@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mirville.loria.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: arcturus.ciril.fr 1111425264 10642 152.81.8.176 (21 Mar 2005 17:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ciril.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:14:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1111424076.416236.204890@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9682 comp.lang.c++:46575 comp.realtime:1570 comp.software-eng:5170 Date: 2005-03-21T18:10:36+01:00 List-Id: Jerry Coffin wrote: > adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: > >>"Robert A Duff" wrote in message >>news:wcc4qfdoqzd.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com... >> >>>...but of course there's a lot of market pressure to produce >>>standard-conforming compilers, for those languages that have >>>official standards (Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Cobol, etc). >>> >> >>Not Eiffel? > > > TTBOMK, Eiffel doesn't have an official standard. If there was an ISO > standard, it would naturally fall under JTC1/SC22, but the ISO > JTC1/SC22 web site: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/, doesn't mention > Eiffel anywhere. > > Searching for Eiffel on the ANSI, ECMA and IEEE web sites fails to turn > up anything positive either -- ANSI and ECMA come up completely dry and > while IEEE cites a number of papers on Eiffel, none that I could find > looked like an official standard. http://www.eiffel-nice.org/standards/ Eiffel The Language 2nd Printing Bertrand Meyer's book describes the Eiffel language, and was adopted by NICE as the language standard. -- Yermat