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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-24 20:32:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!spool0.news.uu.net!reader2.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Sender: DB3L@CTWD0143 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Recent Ada Information (was: zhttp://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/r References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <5be89e2f.0107180235.726d46a8@posting.google.com> <9j3rrd$g71$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <5be89e2f.0107181300.4b4e93d7@posting.google.com> <3B57195E.A3A3FED@home.com> <5be89e2f.0107191336.39376b9@posting.google.com> <3B5CE9D7.CB4AE34B@home.com> From: David Bolen Date: 24 Jul 2001 23:32:18 -0400 Message-ID: Organization: Fitlinxx, Inc. - Stamford, CT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.247.212.3 X-Trace: reader2.news.uu.net 996031919 154 208.247.212.3 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10542 Date: 2001-07-24T23:32:18-04:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > The last (and only the second) standard for the language is from 1995. > Almost any project you can imagine doing in Ada has issues more critical > than needing new features in the language. The facts don't change, > so the FAQs don't change. Note I'm not talking about updated language standards or recent updates to the language itself - I have no problem with a solid language standard holding for years (or decades) - but information related to users of the language and applications of the language. Given the fluidity of FAQs for some other languages, I'm not sure the fact that a language definition remains the same means that FAQs are likely to remain constant (unless the user population is relative stagnant). By definition a FAQ is a frequently asked question, so as user populations of a language grow, the questions tend to evolve with them. It's hard not to occasionally crop up a new question or two. But those were really just examples of cases where I seemed to get a dated feeling from some of the sites I perused. As I said I'm not assuming any specific correlation, just wondering about what I seemed to notice and if there were other places to be looking. > As for studies, while some may feel that the model train comparison > is not up to the detail level of testing a cure for cancer, others > are of the opinion that for _their_ project having yet another study > is not really crucial. No, but just the fact that nobody was updating the page to at least remove the "NEW" banner made me wonder how much attention was being paid to keeping things relatively current. > What _is_ new in recent years is available source samples for various > projects and utilities. People in a position to share their code are > doing so (while others fuss over license scheme battles). Do you have any useful URLs I could follow? I'd love to see some practical examples of current usages for Ada in applications. I've got adapower (and followed various links from it and it's probably the best starting point I've found), adaic and adahome were ok but somewhat dated, and the latest FAQ from this newsgroup I found was from 97. I've grabbed a copy of GNAT. But any suggestions you may have would be welcome. Thanks. -- -- David -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ David Bolen \ E-mail: db3l@fitlinxx.com / | FitLinxx, Inc. \ Phone: (203) 708-5192 | / 860 Canal Street, Stamford, CT 06902 \ Fax: (203) 316-5150 \ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/