Quarterly News Digest

摘要

In this new section opening the News Digest I would like to highlight a few topics in the current number that I found personally more interesting, or out of the ordinary, or particularly relevant for some reason. On this occasion, compilers are the stars of the show. PTC has announced the release of ObjectAda 10.2, which becomes the second compiler with full Ada 2012 support [1]. Meanwhile, the announcement of a new GNAT Community Edition is always exciting [2], but this year we are also witnessing the fast progress of the HAC compiler. The topic on future directions and blurring the lines between compilation and scripting [3] puts the spot on the many possibilities that this new open source Ada compiler may bring to the table.