Re: Ada coding standards, was: Re: Real Time IO routines

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

anon@anon.org (anon) writes:

> 1. The standard is wriiten for another company which may or may not
> be apart of NASA. 

Interesting. What gives you that impression? Apparently it is written
in a confusing way, because you are confused.

> So is this the true NASA standards?

http://fsw.gsfc.nasa.gov/gds/code_standards_ada.pdf is _not_ a
NASA-wide standard, it is just the standard used by my small group.

This is clearly stated in the first paragraph:

    This document presents the coding standards used by the Goddard
    Dynamic Simulator project for the Ada language.

The title also states that this is specific to a specific project:

    Goddard Dynamic Simulator Ada Coding Standard

> 2. We all know that the ISO adopted the Ada 2005 aka Ada 2007 standards 
> back in Jan 2007.  The NASA coding standard is dated in July, 2007 and 
> stated that the ISO has not adopted the Ada 2005 standards.  So, either 
> this is an error or the paper is just a redated older standard. 

Ah, thanks; I'll fix that.

Yes, I recently added information on using Ada 2005 structures, and
advice on when to use access types. But I forgot to update the status
of the standard.

> 3. In 2004 SGI installed a 512 CPU super computer for NASA that uses 
> LINUX and Ada (Ada 95, SGI version).  The paper would have touch on 
> that issue as well.  

No, my group does not use that computer.

> So, any standard would acknowledge this and state issues with each
> vendor and their implementation of Ada and other languages. 

Interesting. Why would a document called "Goddard Dynamic Simulator
Ada Coding Standard" address other projects and other languages?

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-- Stephe