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 19:10:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Recent Ada Information (was: zhttp://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/r Message-ID: 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> Organization: LJK Software Date: 24 Jul 2001 22:09:24 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 996026994 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:09:54 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:09:54 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10541 Date: 2001-07-24T22:09:24-05:00 List-Id: In article , David Bolen writes: > Not to derail the better language discussion, but I'm not a current > Ada user and have been lurking for a bit here following the various > URLs and what not, and I was curious about one thing I noticed. > > I can't help but be struck by the fact that in almost all cases > (clearly there were a few exceptions), the various documents and > comparisions, and studies, and even some FAQs that I'm able to track > down all seem to be years old at this point (some over 5 years). 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. 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. 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). Remember, the newsgroup is where people argue about Ada, not where they get work done.