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Abstract

Starting in 2000, the ISO technical group in charge of maintaining the Ada language has been looking into possible changes for the next revision of the standard, around 2005. Based on the input from the Ada community, it was felt that the revision was a great opportunity for further enhancing Ada by integrating new programming practices, e.g., in the OOP area; by providing new capabilities for embedded and high-reliability applications; and by remedying annoyances encountered during many years of usage of Ada 95. This led to the decision to make a substantive revision rather than a minor one. This talk will give a technical overview of the most important improvements that are currently under consideration for inclusion in Ada 2005.

Speaker

Pascal Leroy is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM France, and the chairman of the ISO Ada Rapporteur Group, the expert group in charge of revising and maintaining the Ada standard. He has more than 19 years of experience in Ada and has been involved in language design, in compiler and tool development and in consultancy with very large Ada projects, notably in the area of command and control systems.

Pascal holds degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Télécommunications in Paris, France.

More information

The Ada Issues Database of the Ada Rapporteur Group is available on the Ada Conformity Assessment Authority's web site at http://www.ada-auth.org/.

This announcement is also available as a PostScript file.

Pascal Leroy's March 2004 presentation was available on-line here. It has been replaced by the updated version he presented during the Ada-Europe'2004 conference mid-June 2004 and can be checked out in two formats:

• "An Invitation to Ada 2005", status June 2004 (MS PowerPoint Slide Show, pps, 320 KB) and
• "An Invitation to Ada 2005", status June 2004 (Adobe Portable Document Format, pdf, 360 KB).

To the Ada-Belgium home page. To the 2004 Ada-Belgium General Assembly Home Page.

Last update: 2004/06/23.