Re: Ada compilers and Ada 2005

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message 
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> Le 01/09/2010 11:45, Pascal Obry a �crit :
>> I think that the "Designed by" is wrong, this is a team effort and
>> anyone can contribute. The team leader was J. Ichbiah for 83, T. Taft
>> for 95, don't know for other revisions.
>>
> For 83 and 95, this has been done on contract. The contract was awarded
> to a company, with a strong team leader. 2005 was designed by the ARG,
> with input from the community. Pascal was an excellent ARG chair, but
> not as influential on the design as Jean was for 83 or Tuck for 95.

Right. Formally, I'm the project editor (and have been since 1998), along 
with the current ARG chair. The project editors are given authorship credit, 
but the work has truly been a team effort. Various people have led different 
parts of the work (Alan Burns for real-time; Matt Heaney for the containers; 
Tucker Taft for all manner of things). To a significant extent, that was 
even true for Ada 95 (most of the Annexes were written by particular 
authors, for instance). My job is mainly herding cats :-) and quality 
control.

                                          Randy.