The Walnut Creek Ada CDROM (November 1997 Edition)

The 14th Edition of the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM is now available. It is a special edition for Tri-Ada'97 and Ada-Belgium'97.

If you plan to attend Tri-Ada'97 on November 8-13 or Ada-Belgium'97 on November 28, this is the double Ada CDROM you will receive for free there.

The contents of the following overview is copied from http://www.cdrom.com/titles/prog/ada.htm

1300 MB of Ada source code, programs and documentation on 2 CDROMS!

Released: November 1997
Price: $39.95
Subscription: $24.95

The Ada Archive

Ada users should not be without this library!

This CDROM is a copy of the Internets Public Ada Library (PAL). With over 1.3 GB of documentation, information, source code, and ready-to-run tools and compilers, this two-disc set is a valuable resource for any serious Ada programmer. Several thousand files added or updated since the June 97 edition.

You'll find:

• New! Aonix Ada95 Compiler and Environment for Win95. From Aonix.
• New! Graphical Representation of Algorithms, Structures, and Processes (GRASP) tool for Win95 & Unix. Forward and reverse engineering your Ada95, C, Java, and VHDL code with graphics. Works with GNAT, GCC, and JDK 1.1. From Jim Cross of Auburn University with funding from NASA and ARPA.
• New! AdaGIDE Ada95 development environment for Win95. Works with GNAT and provides an integrated, easy-to-use front end with colorized pretty printing. From Martin Carlisle of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
• Major Update! GNAT 3.10 Ada95 Compiler and Evnironment for a variety of platforms, including Win95, OS/2, Powermac, and Unix. Includes more tools than before and a newly-revised Users Manual and Reference Manual. From Robert Dewar and the other members of the GNAT Team.
• New! Source Code Analysis Tool Construction Domain-Specific Kit (SCATC DSK) for building tools to analyze Ada83 and Ada95 programs. Can be compiled with GNAT. Includes new, tailored versions of AFLEX and AYACC. All code written in Ada95. From Richard Conn of Monmouth University.
• New! A complete curriculum in Software Engineering. Over 34 MB (compressed) of courses on Software Engineering, Software Reuse, Testing and Quality, Ada95, Software Tool Construction, and others. Uses the SCATC DSK. From Richard Conn of Monmouth University.
• New! AdaGraph for doing basic graphics in Ada95 on Win95 and NT platforms a self-contained, complete system. Does not require Windows programming or a Win32 binding. Works with GNAT and ObjectAda. From Jerry van Dijk.
• New! Final ballot release of the Ada Semantic Interface Specification. As submitted to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22. From Currie Colket and Clyde Roby.
• Over 300 MB of information on Ada83 and Ada95.
• The Public Ada Library Card Catalog (over 1,800 HTML files covering this CDROM). The catalog, which contains an extensive table of contents and two indices, can be accessed by top-level pushbuttons from the CDROMs Web interface. Use of the PAL Card Catalog is shown in the Tour, which is also available through a top-level pushbutton and printed in the July/August 1997 issue of Ada Letters.
• 80 courses in Ada, Software Engineering, Software Reuse, OOD, OOP, Domain Engineering, real-time, concurrent programming, and other current topics.
• Hundreds of technical reports and references, including over 200 MB of material from the Software Engineering Institute.

To the Ada-Belgium home page. To the Ada-Belgium'97 Home Page.

Last update: 97/11/04.