To: J3 J3/19-171r1 From: Van Snyder Subject: Ada Committee Liaison Report Date: 2019-July-28 Original R0 material ==================== The 24th edition of Ada-Europe's International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies took place on 11-14 June in Warsaw, Poland, with considerable success. The conference, graciously hosted by the Institute of Aviation, had nearly 100 participants, enjoyed a rich technical and social program, and saw much active interaction between participants, presenters, and exhibitors. For your information, the following material is now available online: - the "Conference Booklet" in PDF, which contains the abstracts of all presentations in the core program (see first section on [1]); - copies of conference presentations (see "Download" links in "Conference Core Schedule" table on [1]); - copies of DeCPS workshop presentations (see "Download links in "Program" table on [2]); - pictures of the exhibition booths (see final part of [3]). [1] www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/overview.html [2] www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/workshops.html [3] www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/sponsors.html As announced in Warsaw, next year's conference will be held in Santander, Spain, in the week of 8-12 June 2020. The preliminary Call for Contributions is already available on the (mini) conference web site at [4]. More details will follow later. [4] www.ada-europe.org/conference2020/ On this occasion, the Ada-Europe Board announces a slight update of the name of its conference series: - the complete name is "25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies"; - the short name is "Ada-Europe Conference 2020"; - the acronym is "AEiC 2020". Hence on social media when referring to the Ada-Europe organization we'll use #AdaEurope, and when referring to next year's Ada-Europe Conference we'll use #AEiC2020. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe 2019 & 2020 Publicity Chair R1 material =========== From: Dirk Craeynest To: Ada-Europe-interest@cs.kuleuven.be Subject: Additional Comment Period for Upcoming Ada Language Revision Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 22:00:09 +0200 (07/28/2019 01:00:09 PM) One of the keynotes at the recent Ada-Europe Conference 2019 in Warsaw gave an overview of the new features in the upcoming revision of the Ada programming language. The slides of that presentation are available at http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/presentations/keynote/ Ada-Europe%202019_%20A%2020-20%20View%20of%20Ada.pdf Further to this we are pleased to distribute an announcement from the ISO/IEC working group on the Ada programming language about an additional comment period for the upcoming Ada revision: see below. Dirk Craeynest Ada-Europe representative in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be ------- From: Randy Brukardt Subject: Additional Comment Period for Upcoming Ada Revision Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 21:53:30 -0500 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 (WG 9) is responsible for the maintenance and revision of the Ada Programming Language and associated standards and technical reports. As part of the language maintenance activity, WG 9 has established a group of Ada experts as the Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG). The ARG receives input from the Ada community at large to consider for inclusion in revision to the Ada programming language standard. The WG 9 has produced a number of revisions to the language in accordance with ISO policy and to address the evolution of technology (Ada 83, Ada 95, Ada 2005, Ada 2012). Presently, the ARG is nearing completion on a revision to Ada 2012 (known for now as Ada 202x) which includes new contracts and lightweight parallelism features. Concern has been raised that these new proposals have not been prototyped nor has the suitability for diverse target environments been assessed. Therefore, the ARG is seeking comments, based on prototyping and review, on the new features (focused on the parallelism features) incorporated within the current draft of the Ada 202X standard. Comments should be submitted to ada-comment@ada-auth.org as described in the Ada Reference Manual Introduction (http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-0-3.html#p58). Please include the draft number with any Ada Reference Manual references in your comment. Comments should be sent by 1 June 2020 in order to be considered for the revision. (Note: While not required, joining the mailing list as described at http://www.ada-auth.org/comment.html is recommended so that you receive any queries on or responses to your comment.) The draft revision can be found at http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/ada2x.html. A list of issues addressed in Ada 202x can be found at http://www.ada-auth.org/ai-files/grab_bag/2020-Amendments.html. Randy Brukardt, ARG Editor [You can find an on-line version of this announcement at https://www.adaic.org/2019/07/additional-comment-period-for-upcoming- ada-revision/.] --- From: Randy Brukardt Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Additional Comment Period for Upcoming Ada Revision Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:02:39 -0500 To translate this announcement into plain English, the completion date of Ada 202x has been pushed back a year and a half in order to get more feedback on the proposed changes. Most of the major features went from rough outlines last fall to a completed standard with detailed wording by May. This rate of completion was just too much for most interested parties outside of the ARG to keep up with. Rather than standardize something under-baked that might have to be changed in a few years, we're dialing back the amount of work and letting the Ada community catch up. This comment period is not intended to introduce additional new features; such comments are always welcome but most will be deferred until the following revision. (Of course, additional features related to the ones already intended for the revision are possible.) Randy.