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>We are planning to translate Ada9X reference manual into Japanese.
>We would like to know which parts are changed from Ada83. Because
>we have Japanese version of LRM Ada83.
>Do you have any idea of how to estimate what percentage of it are
>updated ? Ada9X reference manual (current version, draft 4.0) only
>tells us where were changed from the previous version (draft 3.0).
There are very few paragraphs that were carried over intact from
the Ada 83 reference manual to the Ada 9X reference manual. On the
other hand, all Ada 83 features remain in Ada 9X. The problem is
that like any complex system, even if a given feature is unchanged,
the interactions with other new features need to be accommodated.
Furthermore, there were already a number of "AI"s on the existing
manual (on average more than one per paragraph), so even if we
made no change to the set of features, we might have had to make
some change to almost every paragraph, if only for clarification.
It is somewhat like what happens when a large piece of software
undergoes a significant revision. Rather than simply applying
hundreds of patches so as to minimize how many sentences
were altered, we did a thorough review of the entire manual
and, while retaining the same overall organization, revamped
the contents of every clause and subclause as necessary to improve
clarity, consistency, and correctness.
In your planning for doing the translation, you can probably save
some time relative to the initial Ada 83 translation because
most of the preexisting vocabulary has not changed. However, enough
paragraphs have changed that it is relatively unlikely that it would pay to
create the Ada 9X translation by "patching" the Ada 83 translation.
There is another team planning a French translation. The team members
have all been quite involved in the Ada 9X process, and some were involved
in the Ada 83 French translation, so perhaps they can comment on any
effort estimates they have developed for their Ada 9X translation.
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