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Ada: The International Language
for Software Engineering

Ada is the language for a complex world. Ada is an advanced, modern programming language, designed and standardized to support widely recognized software engineering principles: reliability, portability, modularity, reusability, programming as a human activity, efficiency, maintainability, information hiding, abstract data types, concurrent programming, object-oriented programming, et caetera. All Ada compilers must pass a validation test. For more details, read a brief introduction to the language.

Resources for Ada programmers include:

• reference manuals, rationales, style guides, grammars, ACVC;
• standards (POSIX, ASIS, Numerics, ...);
• bindings (X Window, Motif, POSIX, ...);
• tutorials;
• tools and components (commercial and "non-commercial");
• compilers and vendors;
• online articles;
• book lists, reviews, and announcements;
• software repository centers, with a cornucopia of Ada goodies;
• research references;
• etc.

The Ammunition Department will help you:

• learn some of the history of Ada;
• understand how Ada has improved and entered, under the name of Ada 95, the OO floor of the programmer's Tower of Babel;
• advise industry about the competitive advantages of Ada in maintainability, reliability, efficiency, portability, and reusability;
• move from C/C++ to Ada;
• convince academia to teach Ada;
• spread a series of success stories;
• join Ada special interest groups as well as Team Ada;
• etc.

For those discovering Ada or who want to experiment, there is:

• a summary introduction to Ada;
• a free online tutorial on Ada 95 (Lovelace);
• lists of textbooks;
• information on free compilers;
• code examples;
• etc.

Easy access (but no pointers :-) to Ada-related FTP sites, and WWW servers.

Feedback and contributions are appreciated: Submission Directions.

For comments, additions, corrections, gripes, kudos, etc. e-mail to: