Re: Ada and Automotive Industry

[mazzanti@iei.pi.cnr.it (Franco Mazzanti)]

> 
> In article <HtgbhGAHr1oyEwD5@phaedsys.demon.co.uk> Chris Hills
<chris@phaedsys.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > >I am amused by the number "2000".  There are, in fact, 174 "Ada Issues",
> > >which are the rulings, or pending rulings, on the current Ada standard.
> > >Of these, 69 are considered bugs in the Standard document.  (Others are
> > >editorial comments, cases where the question has an obvious answer, and
> > >so forth).
> > >

Just for giving an exlanation of the 2000 magic number, which some time
to time appears in articles and talks.

This number is mentioned in the book "Safer C" by Les Hatton (bottom of
page 187) during a comparison a C vs. Ada. The number is clearly related
to Ada83 (since the book was published in 1994) and, even if the number is

probably too large, at least the order of magnitude is quite correct.

More precisely, 1442 comments have been formnally submitted for Ada83, and 
these resulted in 903  "Ada Items".
(see ftp://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/public/AdaIC/standards/83com/ai-index.toc)

For Ada95, the numbering of "Ada Items" has clealry restarted from 1, but 
it is not clear how many of the unresolved Ada 83 items would be 
still applicable to Ada95  (hopefully a small number, but definitively a 
number greater than zero).

Franco Mazzanti