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There are various source of electronic information available through the internet and via bulletin boards including:
There currently are several other WWW servers which contain information on Ada:
This is one of the most active web sites for Ada developers. It includes a multitude of resources, tools, projects, chat groups, humor, and much much more. This great site is managed by David Botton. Check it out!!
This Ada WWW server is a hypertext information server to help dissiminate information about the Ada programming language. The Home of the Brave Ada Programmes is managed by Magnus Kempe. This is a great resource for Ada programmers.
For over a decade, the Ada Information Clearinghouse (AdaIC) has provided information and resources on Ada to the community in order to maximize the language's efficiency, cost effectiveness, and productivity.
The AdaIC is supported by the Ada Resource Association (ARA).
Available files cover topics such as Ada news and current events; Ada usage; resources for Ada education and training; software, tools and interfaces; Ada policies; historical information; standards; and available bindings.
This server has information about what AdaSAGE is, training availability and user group information. You may also download versions of AdaSAGE through this site. All the AdaSAGE documentation in an online form will be available soon.
The Public Ada Library is a free repository of hundreds of megabytes of Ada information. The PAL contains programs, components, tools, general information, and educational materials on Ada. There are also mailing lists which provide announcements and information on the PAL. The PAL can be reached via the World Wide Web over the Internet by clicking on the title above for the primary US site or by clicking on one of the mirror sites below.
Public Ada Library - US Mirror
The PAL US Mirror is an additional site for accessing the contents of the Public Ada Library.
Public Ada Library - European Mirror (ftp)
A library of reusable Ada Software Components
The repository consists of about 560 MB public domain source code and documents, mainly taken from the Public Ada Library (PAL). The software has been classified and is presented in a hierarchical manner, separated in different application domains, and, for some domains, with an additional multi-faceted searching facility.
Our intent is to provide students, teachers and researchers a large collection of reusable Ada components and systems for use in language and software engineering courses.
We plan to enlarge the library in the future and would welcome your free public domain contributions.
Find out how to get all the software you need to do X Window programming in Ada 95--for free. Join the Free X/Ada Programming Team and help promote Ada by porting and contributing X/Ada demo programs.
Ada articles, bibliography, reference material, source code, and GNAT GUI packages all courtesy of Paul Pukite.
The Software Technology Support Center (STSC) was established to assist US DoD software organizations to identify, evaluate and adopt technologies that will improve the quality of their software products, their efficiency in producing them, and their ability to accurately predict the cost and schedule of their delivery. STSC's web site includes articles published in Crosstalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering.
There currently are several internet file servers containing information related to Ada including:
The Public Ada Library is a free repository of over 100 megabytes of Ada information. The PAL contains programs, components, tools, general information, and educational materials on Ada. There are also mailing lists which provide announcements and information on the PAL. The PAL can be reached via anonymous FTP over the Internet by clicking on the title above for the primary US site or by clicking on one of the mirror sites below.
Public Ada Library - US Mirror
The PAL US Mirror is an additional site for accessing the contents of the Public Ada Library.
Public Ada Library - European Mirror
The Eurpean mirror for PAL is an addional site for accesing the contents of the PAL from Europe.
(US mirrors:
Walnut Creek CD-ROM,
the PAL
European mirrors:
Ada-Belgium archive ,
DIT UPM mirror,
Univ. Berlin,
CCI Germany,
Denmark,
IBP France,
CNAM France,
Norway,
FSZ BMD HU,
Ada UK,
Australian mirror:
Canberra Univ.)
GNAT for Mac is available from Tenon as part of its MachTen CodeBuilder.
GNAT is an Ada 95 front end for the GCC compiler. GNAT Ada 95 compilers exist for the Sun Sparc workstation under Sun-OS, the IBM PC under Windows NT/95 and OS/2, the Mac, and many other platforms.
There are also several Mailing Lists associated with GNAT.
There are several internet mailing lists that are of interest to Ada practioners including the:
The Info-Ada Mailing list is an internet interest group for the dissimination of information about Ada and activities within the Ada community. Articles on the mailing list appear as digests from articles posted on the comp.lang.ada USENET news group.
To subscribe to info-ada by sending an e-mail message to:
LISTSERV at LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
with a body containing the following one line:
SUBSCRIBE info-ada [your full name]
Here your full name is your name (at least two discrete words) and not your net address.
Team Ada is a highly informal organization dedicated to telling the world about the advantages of the Ada programming language. Most of the discussion on the mailing list is about how individuals may more effectively spread the word about Ada and its benefits. Past messages to the Team-Ada mailing list are stored in the ACM archives.
Subscribe to the Team-Ada mailing list
The SIGAda Ada Bindings Working Group (ABWG) maintains four electronic mail forums for discussions on bindings. Click here for more information on ABWG and their mailing lists.
The ARTEWG, an ACM/SIGAda working group, is for the discussion of issues relating to the to Ada run-time environment. Click here for more information on the ARTEWG and their mailing lists.
ASIS is an interface between an Ada environment as defined by ISO/IEC 8652:1995 (the Ada Reference Manual) and any tool requiring information from this environment. The ASISWG, an ACM/SIGAda working group, is for the discussion of issues relating to ASIS. Click here for more information on the ASISWG and their mailing lists.
The Reuse Working Group is an ACM SIGAda working group established to provide a forum dissemination of information and discussion on software reuse. Click here for more information on ReuseWG and their mailing lists.
The PIWG has developed the widely distributed benchmark suite for assessing performance of Ada compilers, and is now developing new benchmarks for Ada 95. Click here for more information on PIWG and their mailing lists.
Users of the Public Ada Library are supported by three electronic distribution lists. These are PAL-ANNOUNCE which is an announcement list for PAL users, WUARCHIVE-ANNOUNCE which is an announcement list for users of WUARCHIVE and ADA-TRAIN which is a discussion list for those involved in Ada education.
To subscribe to any of these lists, send a message to: listserv at wunet.wustl.edu. Leave the subject line black and place the following line into the body of the message:
SUBSCRIBE <list name>
where list name is PAL-ANNOUNCE, WUARCHIVE-ANNOUNCE, or ADA-TRAIN.
GNAT is an Ada 95 front end for the GCC compiler. Free Ada 95 compilers exist for the Sun Sparc workstation under Sun-OS, the IBM PC under OS/2 and many other platforms.
Bugs or other problem reports for the current version of GNAT should be sent to
report at gnat.com
Those interested in paying for commercial support should write to
support at gnat.com.
A mailing list for chatting among Gnat users also exists.To subscribe to Gnat Chat, send e-mail to
chat-request at gnat.com.
To subscribe to the mailing list, simply send a message with the word
"subscribe"in the Subject: field to the chat-request address of that list.
For X windows and Ada programming, send mail to x-ada-request at expo.lcs.mit.edu with a the body of the message containing the line: SUBSCRIBE
Ada-Belgium has two e-mail lists:
Send an empty message with "Subject: help" for more information. The announcements posted to the information list are also posted to the discussion list.
If you have some announcements that may be of interest for the Ada community in Belgium, feel free to forward it to ada-belgium-info-owner at cs.kuleuven.ac.be, and it will be posted to the mailing list if appropriate.
The following newsgroups are of interest to Ada practioners:
If you cannot access these newsgroups by clicking on the above links, then either:
In order to correct either of these problems, you should contact your system administrator for help in accessing USENET newsgroups.