Re: Happy Birthday, Ada!

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 11/12/2015 19:11, Jeffrey R. Carter a écrit :
> On 12/11/2015 12:51 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>>> >>
>> > This has been discussed at the time. The standard was ready for
>> > submission (and available in Gnat) in December 2005, and it would not
>> > have made sense to name it in the future.
> Nonsense. I wasn't involved with Ada at the time, but ARM-83 was published on
> 1983 Feb 17, so it was most likely ready for submission in 1982, but we don't
> call it Ada 82. It made sense to name it in the future. ARM-95 was ready for
> submission in 1994, but we don't call it Ada 94. It made sense to name it in the
> future. There would have been no more inconvenience in using Ada 0X until
> publication, at which time we'd have called it Ada 07, than there was in using
> Ada 9X until publication, at which time we called it Ada 95.

In these cases, no compiler was available at the time the standard was
ready. AdaCore insisted on keeping the name Ada2005, because they wanted
to advertise that Gnat was already available for the new standard (I was
personnally not in favour of that, but it was a deliberate, voted,
decision).

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