From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-08 03:11:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 10:26:50 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3BC1715A.12DAEBA2@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3BC0F75B.51D32B3@adaworks.com> <9pr8gu0tnf@drn.newsguy.com> <3BC1305D.1C6910C@worldnet.att.net> <9prebb$1on$1@news.service.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1002535200 25508 193.62.183.154 (8 Oct 2001 10:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Oct 2001 10:00:00 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13914 Date: 2001-10-08T10:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Navid Azimi wrote: > I tried to learn Ada a few months ago, and I couldn't even get a straight > answer to what type of compiler exists. Not one person would give me a right > answer, and to this day, I still don't know. > > I found a compiler on the www.adapower.com but it was soo poorly documented > I had no clue how to run it. I couldn't find any examples of quick programs > (hello world) to see how the syntax was, nor was I able to do anything > friendly with it. Try http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/ada/ for a selection of Ada compilers, development tools, tutorial material, reference manuals, software libraries and source code examples, all freely available. The site includes links to the home sites of all the included material. Is this a straight enough answer? :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------