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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,a839d8c4163b5054 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: johnherro@aol.com (John Herro) Subject: Re: What's ADA? Date: 1996/05/03 Message-ID: <4mcp7h$3mi@newsbf02.news.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152767561 sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com references: <31888e94.20333789@news.saipan.com> organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ����RM��@Earth.com asks: > Can anyone please explain to me > what is ADA? Thanks. Ada is a programming language - in my very strong opinion, the best programming language of them all! Originally developed for military applications, especially large embedded systems, Ada turned out to be an ideal general-purpose programming language as well. Ada catches errors at compile time that other languages catch only at run time, or not at all. Also, Ada programs tend to be easier to read, and easier to modify a month or a year later. Ada was named for Augusta Ada Byron, countess of Lovelace. She worked with Babbage on his Analytical Engine, and has been called the world's first programmer. At the Web address and the FTP addresse below my signature, you can download a shareware Ada tutorial. It's written in Ada, and includes source code. It will run on a PC without an Ada compiler, and on any other computer with an Ada compiler. There are also free on-line Ada tutorials at http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.html and at http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/law/lawhp.html. Learn Ada; you'll like it! I no longer like to program in anything else! - John Herro Software Innovations Technology http://members.aol.com/AdaTutor ftp://members.aol.com/AdaTutor