Initial announcement of the Ada WWW Server at epfl.ch

From: Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.infosystems.www
Date: 4 Mar 1994 12:09:37 GMT

The Software Engineering Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland is pleased to announce the opening of The Ada WWW Server.

I have put together a Web server for the Ada programming language. The Ada WWW Server provides Ada-related information and hypertext access in areas including:

Historical notes on Ada
- the Lady
- the programming language
References
- hypertext LRM 83
- (draft hypertext of) Draft RM 9X
Standards
Bindings
Tools and Components
Intellectual Ammunition
- some facts about the language
- Ada 9X
- Ada in academia and industry
- special interest groups
- debunking myths about Ada
Introductory Material
- design goals and summary of the language
- textbooks
- "free" compilers
Resources
- software repositories
- books and articles
- list of validated compilers
- cheap (not yet available) and "free" compilers
- educational discounts (not yet available)
- CD-ROMs
FTP Sites--and Mirrors
Ada Today
- press releases
- technical and other news
Frequently Asked Questions--with Answers

For instance, you will find the list of schools using Ada in CS1 or CS2, an article on commercial success stories, information about software components, as well as the reference manuals and rationales (both 83 and 9X).

The URL is http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ [and nothing else; if you have been informed of another, old URL, please use the one indicated here, as it is host-independent and will always be valid. Thank you.]

The Ada WWW Server will continue to grow. All comments, ideas, and requests for additions or corrections, are welcome (e-mail to me, magnus.kempe@di.epfl.ch).

Since I am leaving on Monday to give a tutorial at TOOLS Europe (on OOP with Ada 9X) and after that will attend an ISO Ada 9X meeting, I will not be able to answer any e-mail (or news article) over the next two weeks.

Enjoy.

Magnus Kempe -- Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch

Dirk Craeynest (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Ada-Belgium Newsletter Editor & Team Ada