Re: Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 7 Oct 1994

[stt@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)]

In article <37haa0$baf@scoop.eco.twg.com>,
Lance Kibblewhite <lance@eco.twg.com> wrote:
> ...
>So is "Ada 95" more 'correct' then "Ada 94"?

Not particularly.  The Ada community can call the new revision
of Ada anything they want ;-).  Note that "new" Fortran is called
Fortran 90, even though it was well after Dec. 31, 1990 when
it became a standard.  

Personally, I still like Ada 9X -- it seems a little flashier
than Ada 94 or Ada 95 (though of course Windows 95 is giving
some cache' to Ada 95 -- NOT).

In any case, to answer your question more seriously, the most "correct"
name will reflect the date that ISO assigns to it, based on when they
officially publish it.  Ada 9X is almost certain to be "approved"
as an International Standard during 1994 (in November), but
it is not clear exactly how long it will take the wheels of ISO
to crank out the official publication of the new Standard.

The "full" ISO designation will either be ISO/IEC 8652:1994
or ISO/IEC 8652:1995, depending on the RPM of their wheels.
The ANSI designation will be ANSI/ISO 8652:199?

>-- Lance.

S. Tucker Taft    stt@inmet.com
Ada 9X Mapping/Revision Team
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA  02138