Re: Two ideas for the next Ada standard

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Peter Herman says

"Are there proposals for the project name of the new standard
similar to Ada9X, such as Ada200X, Ada2000, Ada0X, etc. ?
I am expecting the new standard will come out in 2005
with a much smaller delta as it was from 83 to 95."

There is no new standard
There is no project
There is no project name
There is no expectation of a new standard as soon as 2005
(it is very rare for only 10 years to go by between standards, COBOL 66
to COBOL 74 was an exception, but a bogus one, because the 66 date was
really very late compared to the real date of introduction).

Peter also says that he thinks ideas for a new standard should be
gathered.

I disagree, far too early for that, concentrate on how to use the
current one for the next few years before wasting time ruminating
on new features when we don't really know Adqa 95 yet.