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-Thread: 103376,48e4d567702db3af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: about difference between ADA83 and ADA95 Date: 11 May 2006 12:05:05 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1147334671.991801.11400@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1147363505 9485 192.74.137.71 (11 May 2006 16:05:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:05:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4200 Date: 2006-05-11T12:05:05-04:00 List-Id: "Ed Falis" writes: > There's a chart at > http://www.adacore.com/home/ada_answers/comparison-chart that gives a > very high-level comparison of the features available in the three > versions of Ada. Not much info, but an overview that might get you > started. Right. More detailed info is available in the AARM. Look at: http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada05.html and you will find various documents. If you look in the AARM, you will find detailed lists of all changes between Ada 83 and Ada 95, and also between Ada 95 and Ada 2005. The three big features added between 83 and 95 were: Support for OOP (tagged types, class-wide types, dispatching calls, ...) Hierarchical library units (child packages) Protected objects - Bob