[aadl]: FW: Traceability of requirements

[Jérôme Hugues]

Le 18 mai 09 à 17:16, Peter Feiler a écrit :

> Why is the syntax of AADL the way it is?
> AADL was derived from MetaH to benefit the semantic framework from  
> MetaH.
> To get the standard out quickly we did not want to reinvent the  
> syntax.
>
> MetaH has a syntax that looks like Ada. When Steve Vestal designed  
> MetaH he was familiar with Ada and implemented the toolset in Ada.
>
> Where does Ada have its syntax from? It came from the green team.
>
> Who was the lead of the green team?
>
> The rest is for historians of programming languages.


which explains why so many french people are involved in the language ;)

for the record, Steve and Bruce were also among the first customers of  
the GNAT compiler with .. MetaH

and RST, the conference that will host the next AADL meeting is also  
located in a place were several Ada events were organized a while  
back ;)


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