From: Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe)
Subject: Ada FAQ: The Ada WWW Server
Date: 19 Dec 1994 16:55:45 GMT
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Ada FAQ: The Ada WWW Server
In this FAQ you will find: an overview of the contents of the Ada WWW
server, general information on WWW, references to some available WWW
browsers, and directions to access WWW trough e-mail.
Contents:
* Introduction
* What's On The Ada WWW Server ?
* Other Ada-Related WWW Servers
* What is WWW ?
* Some WWW browsers
* WWW by E-mail
* Copying this FAQ
Recent changes:
* 941219: other Ada-related WWW servers.
* 941219: update of the information on WWW browsers and email
access.
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Introduction
The Ada WWW Server is a hypertext information server to help
disseminate information about the Ada programming language. It is
alive and heavily used. The Ada WWW server is managed by Magnus Kempe.
The latest version of this FAQ is always accessible through WWW as
http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/FAQ/ada-www-server.html
The URL of the Ada WWW Server is
http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/
[don't forget the trailing '/'; and it's 'Ada', neither 'ADA' nor 'ada'].
The Ada WWW Server keeps growing. All comments, ideas, contributions,
and requests for additions or corrections, are most welcome.
Email should be directed to the maintainer, Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch .
The Ada WWW Server is physically located at the Software Engineering
Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
What's On The Ada WWW Server ?
The Ada WWW Server provides Ada-related information and hypertext
access in areas including (the following is a non-exhaustive list):
* Reference Manuals
+ hypertext versions of LRM 83 and of RM 9X
+ text of LRM 83 and RM 9X
+ text of the rationales for Ada 83 and 9X
* State of Ada 9X Revision Process
* Resources
+ standards
+ bindings
+ tools and components
+ software repositories
+ list of books and articles, and online papers
+ research activities
+ current list of validated compilers
+ cheap and free compilers
+ educational discounts
+ CD-ROMs
* Intellectual Ammunition
+ some facts about the language
+ Ada 9X
+ Ada in academia (e.g. who teaches Ada, textbooks, educational
discounts)
+ Ada in industry (e.g. success stories)
+ special interest groups
+ debunking myths
* Historical Notes on Ada
+ the Lady and the programming language
* Introductory Material
+ design goals and summary of the language
+ textbooks
+ free compilers
* Frequently Asked Questions--with Answers
+ comp.lang.ada
+ Ada WWW
+ PAL
+ Team-Ada
* FTP Sites--and Mirrors
* Ada-related News and Events
+ conferences, workshops (calls for papers, programs)
+ calendar
+ press releases
+ technical and other news
* Ada Picture Gallery
* CS Technical Reports
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 hypertext versions of the Ada
reference manual (both 83 and draft 9X).
Other Ada-Related WWW Servers
ACM SIGAda
URL http://info.acm.org/sigada/
ACM SIGAda -- the ACM Special Interest Group on the Ada
programming language -- has its own home page, where you can
find the latest information about ACM SIGAda's activities and
on the Ada programming language in general.
The SIGAda home page points to information on SIGAda, including
the many different Working Groups within SIGAda. There you'll
find info on topics such as bindings, software standards,
reuse, performance issues, and Artificial Intelligance and Ada
just to name a few. There is also information on the many local
SIGAda organizations found world wide. Additionally, there are
links from the SIGAda page to many Ada resources found around
the internet.
Ada-Belgium
URL http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/
Ada-Belgium organizes an annual seminar, an annual Ada Tools
Exhibition, small workshops, publishes 3 issues of its
newsletter a year, and has two e-mail lists for the Ada
community in Belgium. On demand, training seminars can be
organized. They also manage an Ada archive (with material from
the PAL, see below).
PAL
URL http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/
The Public Ada Library at WUArchive, USA.
European mirror of PAL
URL http://web.cnam.fr/Languages/Ada/PAL/
Located at Conservatoire National des Arts et M�tiers, Paris
(CNAM).
SEI
URL http://www.sei.cmu.edu/FrontDoor.html
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded
research and development center operated since 1984 by Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
The SEI is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense through
the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The SEI objective
is to provide leadership in software engineering and in the
transition of new software engineering technology into
practice.
(This site has a lot of material about Software Engineering in
general, and some about Ada in particular.)
What Is WWW ?
The World Wide Web (WWW) is what Fortune Magazine ("The Internet And
Your Business," March 7, 1994, pp. 86-96) called the "killer
application" that will make the Internet indispensable to anyone in
the 1990's just as the spreadsheet did for the PC in the 1980's.
WWW is like a distributed hypermedia encyclopedia. It is a database
and communications protocol, it is multimedia, distributed, and
hypertext. Clicking on links takes the user from document to document,
from site to site, world-wide. WWW was originally developed by
researchers at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
The basic concepts used in WWW are hypertext--text that is not
constrained to be linear--and multimedia--information that is not
constrained to be text. With hypertext, documents can contain links to
other documents, or another reference within the same document. With
multimedia, documents can contain objects that are not necessarily
text--sounds, movies, and interactive sessions are all possible.
WWW has also attracted attention from Business Week (Nov 14, 1994, pp
80-88; March 28, 1994, pp. 170 and 180), Byte ("Data Highway," March
1994), Scientific American ("Wire Pirates," March 1994), New Media
(November 1994), PC Magazine (October 11, 1994), Conde Nast Traveller
(11/94, pp. 37-49, 58), Money (November 1994, p. 125), Unix Review
(October 1994), Advanced Systems ("Doing Business on the Internet",
November 1994, pp. 50-55), German Der Spiegel (March 1994), and
British PC Week (March 15, 1994). In March 1994, WWW was featured on
CNN's FutureWatch.
For more information, read the WWW FAQ, available in hypertext at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html, and in the FTP
archive of news.answers:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq .
Some WWW Browsers
Commercial and free WWW browsers are available for all major
platforms (Unix, Macintosh, Windows, DOS, VMS, VM, NeXTstep...). An
up-to-date list of browsers is available on the Web as
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html and should be
regarded as an authoritative list.
Here is some quick reference information for a few free browsers:
For instance, Mosaic is the name of an application which lets users
navigate through the Internet and browse through the Web; this
software --distributed free to anyone who requests it and available
for Unix workstations, Macintosh systems, and MS Windows-- was
developed at NCSA, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The Mosaic binaries are
FTP-able from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic (Unix and VMS),
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Mosaic , and
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/PC/Mosaic .
Lynx is a full screen browser for vt100 terminals; precompiled
binaries are available from ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx .
Cello is a client for PCs running Windows, available from
ftp://fatty.law.cornell.edu/pub/LII/Cello .
W3 is an Emacs subsystem, available from
ftp://moose.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3 (files w3.tar.Z and
extras.tar.Z).
If you work on a Unix machine, a WWW browser might already be
installed, so you may try to execute
xmosaic http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/
or Mosaic http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/
If you do not yet have a WWW browser, you can go over the Internet
with
telnet info.cern.ch
which will bring you to the WWW Home Page at CERN. You are now using a
simple line-mode browser. To move around the Web, enter the number
given after an item. To go to the Ada WWW Server, enter
go http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/
WWW by E-mail
If you do not have direct Internet access (i.e. ftp, telnet, etc.),
you can still retrieve WWW documents by e-mail: send a message to
server@mail.w3.org (preferred)
or to
listserv@info.cern.ch (older address if the first fails)
(What you put on the subject line doesn't matter; blank is OK.) with a
single line in the text of the message, of the form
send [http-address]
e.g. send http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/
At the bottom of the message you will be sent you will find all links
of the document you requested. Note that your mail system must be
gatewayed to Internet mail.
For more information on how to access the Web, read the WWW FAQ
(mentioned above).
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Copying this FAQ
This FAQ is copyright 1994 by Magnus Kempe. It may be freely
redistributed as long as it is completely unmodified and that no
attempt is made to restrict any recipient from redistributing it on
the same terms. It may not be sold or incorporated into commercial
documents without the explicit written permission of the copyright
holder.
Permission is granted for this document to be made available under the
same conditions for file transfer from sites offering unrestricted
file transfer on the Internet and from Forums on e.g. Compuserve and
Bix.
This document is provided as is, without any warranty.
_________________________________________________________________
Enjoy.
Magnus Kempe -- Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch
"I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
Give me Liberty... or Give me Death!"
-- Patrick Henry, Son of Thunder
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