Re: Ada Quality and Style

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<7f47d947-a0cc-4979-9372-25f5c795781a@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
 Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Jun 21, 4:48 am, John McCormick <mccorm...@cs.uni.edu> wrote:
> > On Jun 21, 12:21 am, Rick <rickdu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have my trusty "Ada95 Quality and Style: Guidelines for Professional
> > > Programmers".  I cannot find a new version.  Is there one?  If so,
> > > where can I obtain a copy?
> >
> > There was a discussion at the SIGAda 2008 meeting in Portland about
> > updating the style guide.  Geoff Smith suggested that the process be
> > open to the Ada community.  He created a wikibook using the Ada 95
> > version as a starting point.  I'm not sure how much work has been done
> > on it.  Certainly there is still some work to be done to add
> > formatting markup, but the entire document is there and ready for
> > people to add guidance for Ada 2005 additions.
> >
> > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Style_Guide
> 
> Is there a way to diff between the "Ada95 Quality and Style" and this
> newer one?

I got useful results doing something like this:

Get new:
curl http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Style_Guide > new.html

Get old:
curl http://www.adaic.com/docs/95style/zip/ > aqs95_html.zip
unzip aqs95_html.zip
cd aqs95_html
cat sec_1.html sec_2.html sec_3a.html sec_3b.html sec_4.html sec_5a.html 
sec_5b.html sec_6a.html sec_6b.html sec_7a.html sec_7b.html sec_8a.html 
sec_8b.html sec_9.html sec_10.html sec_11.html > old.html

Open both in browser.
Copy and paste text to new.txt and old.txt.
Open in favorite editor's diff mode, ignoring spaces.

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John B. Matthews
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