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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:55:39 -0500
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>>
>> 	Well... as I recall, it ("Green") became DOD standard 1815 in
>> December of 1980. It took another few years to become an ISO standard.
>
> 1980 Dec: MIL-STD-1815, Ada 80

I don't think the so-called Ada 80 standard was used for much of
anything.  Was it?

> 1983 Feb: ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A, Ada 83 (adopted as an ISO standard 1987)

That was the first real standard.

> 1995 Jan: ISO/IEC 8652:1995, Ada 95 (Technical Corrigendum 1 adopted in
> 2000)

> Hopefully 2007 will see Ada 0X become a standard.

I think Ada 2005 will become an ISO standard in 2007.
Even if ISO red tape holds it up for another 50 years,
it's still Ada 2005, in common parlance, and just "Ada"
in official parlance.

>... On the Ada-comment
> mailing list there's a discussion of revising the wording for
> "equivalence" for ordered containers (originally discussed on c.l.a), so
> it may be a while yet.

No.  Such minor bugs in the Standard will not delay it.
If a fix is necessary, it will be a correction to Ada 2005.

- Bob