RCONN@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Rick Conn) (05/27/87)
DoD-STD-1838 (also referred to as MIL-STD-CAIS, where CAIS is the Common APSE [Ada Programming Support Environment] Interface Set) is to be delivered today (5/27/87) to the Ada Joint Program Office. Publication should be completed and DoD-STD-1838 should be available to the general public in hardcopy form in the next few months. There will probably be an announcement on ADA-SW and in the ASR Newsletter and other Ada-oriented newsletters when the standard is available. Thanks to Patricia Oberndorf and the KAPSE Interface Teams (KIT and KITIA) for the enormous amount of effort they devoted to this project. The following is extracted from CAISSTAT.INF in PD:<ADA.POINTERS>: The recommended changes to the January 1985 version of the proposed MIL-STD CAIS have been unanimously approved by the CAIS Standardization Working Group. These changes were developed in direct response to the formal MIL-STD comment process (discussed in the May AdaIC newsletter), input from prototype implementers, and informal comments from the government, industry, and international Ada communities. The Standardization Working Group recommended the revised CAIS be adopted as DoD-STD 1838. This is a significant milestone for the Ada language, which is the culmination of much effort by the KAPSE Interface Teams (KIT and KITIA). The standard should be available towards the end of the 1st calendar quarter of 1987. The next Ada IC newsletter, as well as Ada Today, will contain instructions on how and where to obtain this DoD-STD. -------