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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86e4f25e3cb89995 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada 200X? Date: 1998/07/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 375136704 References: <6pdt77$qgo$1@news-1.news.gte.net> X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nyu.edu X-Trace: news.nyu.edu 901492835 20594 (None) 128.122.140.58 Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: << I ran acrosssome articles that you have writen in the Ada news group. I am purchasing books on the subject and having previous experience with C/C++ I hope to make the conversion painlessly and join your elit group, but a comment you said in your letter confused me. Using the term "Ada 200x" I have never heard of this proposed standard your where you just saying that whenever the next standard appears that the team should add this. I want to learn the newest Ada standard, the notion that another standard is sneaking up just after I have invested money and time in this venture and then be left behind with old news. Please help to clarify --a hopefully newbie Joshua >> The term Ada 200x is actually a rather misleading term, which would be better avoided to remove the understandable confusion that its use causes. The term is nothing more than a convenient macro for "a possible future development of a future version of Ada". The name is chosen by analogy with the Ada 9x project, but in fact there is no Ada 200x project, nor any kind of formal, or even semi-organized informal activity that is directed to revising the Ada standard. The Ada 95 is the current Ada standard, and will be for a long time to come, so that is what you should study!