RE: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?)

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Tucker Taft et al.
The appropriate body for Internet standards is the World Wide Web
Consortium, W3C (http://www.w3.org/). As a first step, wherever possible an
Ada implementation, binding, API, etc should be included wherever the
equivalent in Java has been included. We should liaise with W3C. Ada is a
very good fit with XML. I believe that several eminent Ada Gurus are in easy
commuting to Cambridge. Maybe, we could recruit someone from W3C to talk or
give a tutorial at SIGAda 2001.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Tucker Taft
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:02 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?)


Julian Morrison wrote:
>
> Two things I'd like to see included: Java-style "interfaces" with
> multiple inheritance, and cross-platform sockets as a standard annex.

Java-style interfaces are proposed in the Amendment AI 251; see:

  http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin-acats/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00251.DOC?rev=1.3

I would agree that some kind of sockets interface should be considered,
something on the level of java.net.Socket and java.net.ServerSocket.
Perhaps also an HTTP servlet interface.  These might want to be
"secondary" standards, or perhaps part of an "Internet" annex.

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