mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) (01/22/91)
You might be interested to know that the set of Ada9x documents is online at AJPO, and can be copied by anonymous ftp. I have just finished the one on reuse, and found it an enlightening tour of the relationship between OOP and Ada, among other things. It's a solid and, in my opinion, balanced 32-page discussion of pros and cons of packages, generics, private types, etc. I recommend it strongly. I also suggest that _everyone_ who's serious about Ada read the Requirements document, reqmts-final. If you have a PostScript printer, the documents with .ps file extension will print very nicely in SEI standard form. The .Z documents are, I think, straight ASCII once they are uncompressed. Here is a session I just ran at AJPO. They are much easier to get to than Simtel20; I suggest we don't abuse it and bog the network down with file transfers, or we'll shoot ourselves in the foot. mfeldman@sparko:141: ftp ajpo.sei.cmu.edu Connected to ajpo.sei.cmu.edu. 220 ajpo.sei.cmu.edu FTP server (Ultrix Version 4.10 Mon Nov 7 15:52:11 EST 1988 ) ready. Name (ajpo.sei.cmu.edu:mfeldman): anonymous Password (ajpo.sei.cmu.edu:anonymous): 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd public/ada9x 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls -l 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (128.164.16.1,22840) (0 bytes). total 17 drwxr-xr-x 2 20342 512 Jan 16 17:14 ada9x.reports drwxr-xr-x 2 20342 512 May 16 1990 gen.info drwxr-xr-x 2 20342 512 Jan 16 17:25 news drwxr-xr-x 2 20342 512 Aug 18 1989 past drwxr-xr-x 3 20342 13312 May 15 1990 revision.requests 226 Transfer complete. 285 bytes received in 0.78 seconds (0.35 Kbytes/sec) ftp> cd ada9x.reports 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls -l 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (128.164.16.1,22841) (0 bytes). total 1943 -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 41510 Aug 6 12:05 charset.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 177093 Oct 5 09:56 charset.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 190358 Jan 16 17:12 fixedpoint.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 264782 May 30 1990 issues1.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 12641 Aug 18 1989 plan89.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 19668 May 14 1990 plan90.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 59841 Dec 14 12:24 pragma.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 51821 Sep 5 12:40 reqmts-draft-Sep90.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 235481 Oct 16 12:25 reqmts-draft-Sep90.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 69763 Dec 13 09:48 reqmts-final.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 280176 Dec 13 09:56 reqmts-final.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 35683 Jan 16 17:08 reuse.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 217634 Jan 14 15:59 reuse.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 740 May 16 1990 revreq.hlp -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 95133 May 11 1990 rqmts-workshop-Jun89.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 28967 Aug 6 11:32 sharedva.9x.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 20342 133775 Oct 5 13:00 sharedva.ps 226 Transfer complete. 1023 bytes received in 3.93 seconds (0.25 Kbytes/sec) ftp> quit 221 Goodbye.