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: 103376,5b062cdca243a886 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 20:47:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Please review and comment References: <9kacr0$l8o$1@news.service.uci.edu> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <434a7.21513$Kd7.13537266@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 03:47:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 996724032 24.7.82.199 (Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:47:12 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:47:12 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11026 Date: 2001-08-02T03:47:12+00:00 List-Id: >What about putting links or information about how to -start- programming in >Ada? I'm more confused on how to get it, say a simple hello world, running >as opposed to problems with strings and arrays. I dont know which >program/compiler to download, or what extension I need on my file, or >anything simple of that sorts. Aonix (look at www.aonix.com) makes available a $0 downloadable version. I believe it's IDE is like that of Visual C++ . You can get the public version of Gnat (3.13p for Windows, IIRC). Look at www.adapower.com For simple command line use, create a program in a text file of arbitrary name and the gnatchop program. That will chop a file in separate pieces, creating abc.ads for "package abc" and abc.adb for "package body abc" or "procedure abc". Then, if "procedure hi" is your "main", "gnatmake hi" will compile hi.adb and anything it needs. Look in www.adapower.com for non-command line IDEs for Gnat, if you like. >All these different names about Gtk+, AdaGtk, etc, etc.. are very confusing >for a newbie to Ada like me. For Hello World you don't need any of those - ignore them for now. They are there to simplify life for complex "WIMP" programming.