Volume XX Number 2 June 2000
Table of Contents
Message from the Chair - Ben Brosgol 1
Editorial Policy......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Key Contacts............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
SIGAda Working Groups........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Local SIGAda Chapters......................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Ada Around the World......................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Meetings
SIGAda 2000......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
10th International Real-Time Ada Workshop................................................................................................................................... 14
Ada Europe 2001.................................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Announcements
Research in the History of Programming Languages and Software Engineering...................................................................... 17
John English Windows Library............................................................................................................................................................ 18
SIGAda '99 Workshop Report: How do We Expedite the Commerical Use of Ada?- Robert C. Leif............................ 19
Reusable Software Components- Trudy Levine........................................................................................................................... 27
Reviewed Papers
Implementation of State Machines with Tasks and Protected Objects - Bo Sanden.............................................................. 38
An Automatic Object-Oriented Parser Generator for Ada - Martin Carlisle.............................................................................. 57
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