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: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: 21 Mar 2005 12:19:23 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <19167262.fkuVsrGd7i@linux1.krischik.com> <1111424076.416236.204890@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1111425565 3703 192.74.137.71 (21 Mar 2005 17:19:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:19:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9683 comp.lang.c++:46576 comp.realtime:1571 comp.software-eng:5171 Date: 2005-03-21T12:19:23-05:00 List-Id: "Jerry Coffin" writes: > adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: > > "Robert A Duff" wrote in message > > news:wcc4qfdoqzd.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com... > > > > > > ...but of course there's a lot of market pressure to produce > > > standard-conforming compilers, for those languages that have > > > official standards (Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Cobol, etc). > > > > > Not Eiffel? > > TTBOMK, Eiffel doesn't have an official standard. If there was an ISO > standard, it would naturally fall under JTC1/SC22, but the ISO > JTC1/SC22 web site: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/, doesn't mention > Eiffel anywhere. > > Searching for Eiffel on the ANSI, ECMA and IEEE web sites fails to turn > up anything positive either -- ANSI and ECMA come up completely dry and > while IEEE cites a number of papers on Eiffel, none that I could find > looked like an official standard. I think ECMA is working on an Eiffel standard. See: http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC39-TG4.htm - Bob