Session Summary: Future of the Ada Language and Language Changes such as the Ravenscar Profile Chair: Alan Burns Rapporteur: Ben Brosgol 1. Status of the Standard Jim Moore, the convener for WG9, described the formal process that is being used to update the Ada language standard. By way of background, WG9 is one of many Working Groups under SC22 (Languages and Operating Systems), which is one of several subcommittees under JTC1, which is the single Technical Committee jointly managed by both international standards organizations, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). National bodies are members at each level of the hierarchy; generally a national body is under government auspices, but ANSI (for the U.S.) is an exception. At each level of the hierarchy, national body membership and representation is determined distinctly. A country can be a P-member ("participating") or an O-member ("observing). P-members must vote on everything, and P-membership generally entails more of a commitment than O-membership. Currently WG9 has 7 P-members: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, UK, and US. Since new work items require commitment from at least 5 P-members, WG9 does not have much "management reserve". Alan Burns observed that other
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Session summary: future of the Ada language and language changes such as the Ravenscar profile
Burns, Alan; Brosgol, Ben
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Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 2002
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