The article discusses not only Engle's current role in the Ada community but his past involvement with Ada beginning with his role in developing Ada 83 as a graduate student at Stanford University. Engle stresses the importance of the DoD's Ada policy and notes that however attractive people may find C++, its lack of standardization and technical limitations often make it a poor substitute for Ada.

Riehle states that Ada 95 has remedied this issue by defining a set of packages for both character handling and string handling. It even includes packages for wide characters and wide strings. Riehle continues by offering examples and explanations for Ada 95 string capabilities.

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The combined expertise of both companies should result in producing the industry's highest performance DSP software tools. "Tartan is the clear technical leader in Ada and C++ compilers within the DSP industry, and this acquisition doubles our DSP development support resources. TI will be able to take advantage of Tartan's expertise and technology to dramatically accelerate TMS320 DSP technology development and to provide the best DSP customer application support in the industry," said Mike Hames, TI Semiconductor Group vice president and worldwide DSP manager.