From: ev_remove_this_ans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)
Subject: Re: Some GNAT history (was Re: SGI GNAT Question? (Long))
Date: 1999/03/11
Date: 1999-03-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ev_remove_this_ans-1103990847580001@192.168.1.254> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7c2c11$ila$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7c2c11$ila$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> Incidentally a bit of history may provide useful perspective here. I
> know that many readers are fully familiar with this, but we always
> have new readers who have discovered Ada more recently who don't
> always know the history (and of course it is great to see new people
> coming into the Ada fold).
Thanks, Robert, for this important contribution.
> I spread the gospel of the importance of a free software approach to
> Ada 95 to Chris Anderson, and from my input, and from the input of
> many others, it was Chris who was finally persuaded that this made
> sense.
[snip]
> That's a rather *amazing* contract, and in retrospect, Chris was
> surprised that she succeeded in getting it past the legal and
> procurement scrutiny in the DoD. In fact I think it is a tremendous
> achievment, and I am not sure anyone else other than Chris could have
> managed it.
The intended audience of Robert's note probably doesn't recognize
Chris's name. She was Project Director of the DoD-funded project that
upgraded the Ada-83 standard to Ada-95. All concerned with the project
agreed that Chris's commitment to the project and deep understanding of
DoD ways were essential to the success of what we did. The Ada
community owes her an immense vote of thanks, and it's my pleasure to
acknowledge her publicly here.
Art Evans
Arthur Evans Jr
Ada Consulting
Make the obvious change to my address to reply to me.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-02 0:00 SGI GNAT Question? (Long) Paul Colvert
1999-03-02 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Paul Colvert
1999-03-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-05 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` root
1999-03-07 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` root
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Some GNAT history (was Re: SGI GNAT Question? (Long)) dewar
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-09 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr [this message]
1999-03-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-09 0:00 ` SGI GNAT Question? (Long) dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` root
1999-03-07 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-05 0:00 ` GNAT Field Test scope (was SGI GNAT Question) Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-02 0:00 ` SGI GNAT Question? (Long) Gautier
1999-03-02 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-02 0:00 ` GNAT discussions should be here as well kvisko
1999-03-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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