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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-18 20:21:16 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!skynet.be!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!opentransit.net!jussieu.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:20:07 -0800 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 979878070 64936 137.194.161.2 (19 Jan 2001 04:21:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:21:10 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <3A674BA0.ECA8A6E0@averstar.com> Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4199 Date: 2001-01-18T20:20:07-08:00 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. -- -Tucker Taft stt@avercom.net http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Chief Technology Officer, AverCom, Inc. (A Titan Company) Burlington, MA USA (AverCom was formed 1/1/01 from the Commercial Division of AverStar) (http://www.averstar.com/services/ebusiness_applications.html)