Pointers to Ada related information

This page hasn't been updated in a very long time and hence might contain outdated information and links.

For more up-to-date information about Ada, good starting points are the AdaPower site, the Ada Information Clearinghouse, Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, and finally the Ada-Belgium web-site.

(If you still don't know what Ada is, you'd better read this .)

Ada-Belgium

Several people from the Department of Computer Science are heavily involved in the Ada-Belgium organization; both as founding members (Karel De Vlaminck as board member, Dirk Craeynest as vice-president and official contact person), as current board members (Yvan Barbaix), and by assisting Ada-Belgium at recent events.

Ada as a teaching language

In case you are wondering why people are interested to use Ada as a teaching language, even as the language of choice for a first programming course at universities: Richard A. O'Keefe from Melbourne, Australia, posted to the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.ada a nice overview of why they made the move from Pascal to Ada. Occasionally, other positive experiences with the use of Ada as a teaching language have been posted to comp.lang.ada.

See also: An Annotated Sampling of Ada-Oriented Textbooks by Michael B. Feldman of The George Washington University.

More elaborate information on Academia and Ada is available on the Ada WWW Server at epfl.ch.

Local Ada goodies

A lot of Ada goodies are available at the Department of Computer Science of the K.U.Leuven, such as

a number of freely available Ada compilers: (unfortunately, due to lack of disk space, we had to reduce this to our GNU-Ada mirror only)
- the GW-Ada/Ed environment for Ada 83 on PC and Mac,
- GNAT, the GNU NYU Ada 95 Translator, for a steadily growing number of platforms;
local copies (for rapid browsing) of the hypertext version of the
- Ada 95 Reference Manual (courtesy of Magnus Kempe), (unfortunately, due to lack of disk space, we had to delete this),
- Ada (83) Reference Manual, i.e. the text of ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A-1983, "Reference Manual for the Ada Programming Language", with HTML markup (courtesy of gregor@kafka.saic.com);
(partial) mirrors of Ada ftp-sites: (unfortunately, due to lack of disk space, we had to reduce this to our partial PAL CD-ROM mirror only)
- AJPO - Ada Joint Program Office (ajpo.sei.cmu.edu:/pub),
- PAL - Public Ada Library (wuarchive.wustl.edu:/languages/ada);
the Ada-Belgium
- WWW server and
- ftp-archive (also via WWW ), with a.o. part of the Public Ada Library on CD-ROM;
information of general use, brought to you by Team-Ada members:
- professional Ada for PC,
- Ada in the Trade Press,
- Ada Success Stories, a HTML-ized version by Mike Feldman of the AJPO usage directory with additional entries,
- Ada for DSP's (digital signal processors);
extracts from postings on Usenet
- announcements of conferences of interest for the Ada community,
- a motivation for the way multiple inheritance is supported in Ada 95,
- Ada ammunition,
- trivia, and
- programming language related quotes;
an Ada Picture Gallery.

Other Ada related servers

The ACM/SIGAda WWW Server.: End of November, 1994, ACM SIGAda -- the ACM Special Interest Group on the Ada programming language -- announced the availablity of its new home page.
ASSET World Wide Web pages.: On August 10, 1994, Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology (ASSET) announced its World Wide Web pages.
STARS WWW Home Page.: On May 19, 1994, the Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS) Program announced its new home page on the World-Wide Web.
The Ada WWW Server at epfl.ch.: On March 4, 1994, Magnus Kempe (Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch) of the Software Engineering Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, announced the opening of The Ada WWW Server. A revised announcement is posted monthly to the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.ada.
Another Ada WWW Server at cnam.fr: On April 8, 1994, Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@cnam.fr) of the Laboratoire d'Informatique at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, France, announced their Ada Web server. It is now fully operational, but not yet advertised widely on the net.
The gopher server at WUARCHIVE containing the Public Ada Library (PAL).: Using this server does not impact the FTP overhead, so if WUARCHIVE maxes out at 250 FTP sessions during the day, you can still get in through gopher. (There now also is a WWW server at WUARCHIVE.)
The Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) ftp and gopher servers.: The Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) host archives lots of different things relating to Ada that may prove useful. The top-level README file is a guide to the contents of this machine.
AdaNET.: AdaNET application is in gopher Gopher.Mountain.Net, entry Repository Based Software Engineering (AdaNET);
Home pages of "Ada-active" people.

Other remote Ada goodies

Ada related announcements on Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists.
Hypertext versions of the Ada83 and Ada 95 Reference Manuals.: The hypertext Ada83 LRM and the hypertext Ada 95 RM are both available.
Information on Adatcl .: The README is available via WWW.
The comp.lang.ada newsgroup on Usenet.

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