The new standard, officially ISQ'IEC 8652:1995, thus marts an important milestone in Ada's history. Enormous contributions from some of the world's finest software engineers and programming language experts have gone into the revision effort, reflecting both current and anticipated user requirements. I would therefore like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the sterling efforts of all those involved in developing the new standard and in writing this rationale document.
The Ada 95 language revision was prepared by the Ada 9X Design Team based at Inter-metrics. Inc.. under the direction of William Carlson, Program Manager, and S. Tucker Taft Technical Director. The Intermetrics team included Robert Duff (Oak Tree Software) and also consultants John Barnes» Ben Brosgol, and Offer ftuy.