Outside view (still): Development process in the Ada community

["Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com>]

"Michael Erdmann" <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de> wrote:

> i am wondering how standards are eveloving in the Ada community.
> In the Java Community there is a process called Java Community
> Process (JCP, http://www.jcp.org/)

> Is there something comparabel in the Ada communitiy? I gues
> if there would be something like this there would be more
> dynamic in the Ada 95 community.

I thought this snippet of an email from the Ratio Group made an
interesting commentary along the same lines; the problem of "too brittle
... too rigid" in a dynamic world seems to be generic, not limited to
the Ada language capabilities development process.

xanthian, not that this is going to be a huge surprise to any long-time
software practitioner.

(B) Extended Call for Position Papers: "Feyerabend Redefining Computing
Workshop" at ECOOP 2002.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together everyone who is
interested in the  redefinition of computing and/or in the use of
alternative metaphors/languages/ ideas for entering the Next Era of
computer science. The major problem with the current flow of ideas is
that current approaches merely enable the construction of software that
is too brittle and too rigid in order to survive and operate in our real
world which is dynamic and constantly subject to change.

For more information, visit
http://www.dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/ECOOP02/


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