(j3.2006) [Fwd: Press Release - Ada 2012 Published in LNCS and as Free eBook]

Tue May 13 01:53:41 EDT 2014

It is curious. I have checked the Springer site
and it is as Keith says not available
as an ebook.

however it is available as pdf.

There are 13 chapters and they are
?23.74 (uk pounds) per chapter.

the 'paper' book costs ?88.60 (uk pounds)

I have to contact Springer and will ask about this.

cheers

Ian Chivers

From: j3-bounces at mailman.j3-fortran.org [mailto:j3-bounces at mailman.j3-fortran.org] On Behalf Of Keith Bierman
Sent: 12 May 2014 23:39
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Subject: Re: (j3.2006) [Fwd: Press Release - Ada 2012 Published in LNCS and as Free eBook]

Humm, I find this at the provided link for the "free ebook". I guess the ISO IP police got wind of this.

"We are sorry, but for legal reasons this title is not available as eBook"

Keith Bierman
khbkhb at gmail.com
kbiermank AIM
303 997 2749

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Van Snyder <van.snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
FYI.

At least four things of interest:

The Ada 2012 standard has been published as an experimental eBook.
Ada 2012 has features for contract-based programming.
Ada 2012 has conditional expressions.
Ada 2012 has support for multicore platforms.

-Van

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Subject: 
Press Release - Ada 2012 Published in LNCS and as Free eBook

Date: 
Mon, 12 May 2014 07:32:24 +0200

From: 
Dirk Craeynest  <mailto:Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be> <Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be>

To: 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ada 2012 Language Standard Published in Springer's LNCS and as
Free eBook Further Widen the Availability of Latest Language Revision

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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, May 12, 2014.  Ada-Europe today announced
the publication in extra formats of the 2012 version of the Ada
programming language standard, after its formal approval by ISO/IEC
JTC 1 in December 2012.

Since its standardization, the Ada 2012 standard has been available
in HTML and Adobe Acrobat format (PDF), from the download sites [1]
and [2].  More recently, the latest Ada language definition became
also available as volume 8339 of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series [3], as a companion to the Ada 2012 Rationale, published
by Springer as LNCS 8338.

Moreover, with a view to exploring new media platforms to further
widen the availability of this important material, Ada-Europe has
now produced a prototype eBook of the Ada 2012 Reference Manual,
which can be downloaded from [1].  This eBook should be regarded
as a draft concept, proposed for the scrutiny of the Ada community
at large, for feedback on its perceived usefulness and suggestions
for improvements.  Returns on this subject should be addressed to
Ada-Europe at board at ada-europe.org.

[1] http://www.ada-europe.org/resources/online
[2] http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/standards/ada12
[3] http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-3-642-45418-9

About Ada 2012

Ada 2012 brings significant enhancements to Ada, most notably in the
area of "contract-based programming."  New features include the ability
to specify preconditions and postconditions for subprograms, and
invariants for private (encapsulated) types.  These take the form of
Boolean expressions that can be interpreted (under programmer control)
as run-time conditions to be checked.  The contract-based programming
features fit in smoothly with Ada's Object-Oriented Programming
model, and support the type substitutability guidance supplied in
the Object-Oriented Technologies and Related Techniques Supplement
(DO-332) to the new avionics software safety standard DO-178C/ED-12C.

Other new features in Ada 2012 include enhancements to the containers
library, additional expressiveness through features such as conditional
expressions and more powerful iterators, and support for multicore
platforms (task affinities, and the extension of the Ravenscar profile
- standardized in Ada 2005 as an efficient and predictable tasking
subset for high-integrity real-time systems - to multiprocessor and
multicore environments).

About Ada-Europe

Ada-Europe is the international non-profit organization that
promotes the knowledge and use of the Ada programming language in
academia, research and industry in Europe.  Its flagship event is the
annual international conference on reliable software technologies, a
high-quality technical and scientific event that has been successfully
running in the current format since 1996.

Ada-Europe has member organizations all over the continent, in Belgium,
Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as
individual members in many other countries.  For information about
Ada-Europe, its charter, activities and sponsors, please visit:
www.ada-europe.org.  Ada-Europe is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

A PDF version of this press release is available at www.ada-europe.org.

Organization Contact

Ada-Europe ivzw/aisbl
Tullio Vardanega, Ada-Europe President
president at ada-europe.org

Press Contact

Ada-Europe ivzw/aisbl
Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe Vice-president
c/o KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science
dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be
vice-president at ada-europe.org

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