"Ada 95 for Personal Computers: It's Real!" - May 29 - Ada-Belgium

"Ada 95 for Personal Computers: It's Real!" - May 29 - Ada-Belgium

[Dirk Craeynest]

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                           Ada-Belgium Meeting

               "Ada 95 for Personal Computers: It's Real!"

       a technical presentation by Dr. Michael B. Feldman (U.S.A.)

                      Thursday, May 29, 1997, 18:00
                        U.L.B., Brussels, Belgium

    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

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Ada-Belgium is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the
use in Belgium of Ada, the first and only internationally standardized
object-oriented programming language.


Announcement
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Ada-Belgium is happy to announce its next meeting will be held on
Thursday, May 29, 1997, from 18:00 until 21:00, at the Universite'
Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Boulevard du Triomphe, Campus de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, in the "Salle des Professeurs", building NO, 9th level,
room NO.9.06.

An access plan to the Campus de la Plaine of the U.L.B. is available.
Parking facilities are at access no. 2 (parking Fraiteur, the closest)
or no. 4 (parking UAE).  You can check on-line how to get to Brussels
and how to reach the V.U.B./U.L.B. depending on the means of transport
you use.


Speaker
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Dr. Michael B. Feldman is Chair of the Education Working Group of
ACM's Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda), and a Professor in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The
George Washington University in Washington, DC.  He is the author of
two well-received undergraduate textbooks on Ada 95.


Abstract of Talk
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Robust and reasonably-priced Ada 95 implementations for personal
computers are a reality.  On these platforms, Ada 95 is fully
supported by two families of compilers, the GNAT family and the
ObjectAda/AppletMagic family.

GNAT, now a product of Ada Core Technologies (ACT), is available for
nearly all personal-computer platforms.  In the Intel-CPU world,
current ports exist for DOS, Windows 95/NT, OS/2, and Linux.  GNAT
is now available for the Apple Macintosh, hosted under MachTen
CodeBuilder (a modestly-priced Unix engine for the Mac) and targeted
to CodeBuilder and Macintosh OS.  In general, editors and API bindings
are available for the various platforms.

All the GNAT implementations are "free software," distributed freely
with source code under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Customer support agreements are available from ACT.

ObjectAda is a product of Aonix (formerly Thomson Software Products),
and several levels of implementation are available for Windows 95/NT,
including a Special Edition, intended for educational use, that is
packaged on a CD-ROM with several recent Ada 95 textbooks.  ObjectAda
includes a graphical user interface/editor (GUI) and bindings to the
API; the various product levels incorporate additional binding support
and a visual GUI builder.  ObjectAda Professional includes a target for
Java bytecode.

AppletMagic, a product of Intermetrics, is designed for compilation of
Java bytecode applications and applets; bindings to the Java API is
provided.  The front end, an Intermetrics development, is also used by
the ObjectAda products.  A commercial implementation is available for
Windows 95; a beta version for the Mac, Windows 95 and Sun/Solaris can
be downloaded.

Prof. Feldman will give a demonstration of several of these compilers.
His Macintosh PowerBook 1400 is equipped with Unix and Windows 95 as
well as MacOS, and the demo will show all of these as well as Java
applets compiled from Ada 95 source code.

As a bonus, Prof. Feldman will give a brief summary of the growing use
of Ada in university education.  The number of computing curricula in
which Ada is the foundation language grows every year.  As curricula
migrate from Pascal, even when Ada loses the faculty vote (typically
to C++ or Java) it is now a strong candidate and the votes are often
very close.  The message in this is that Ada (95) is getting close and
increasingly favorable attention from the academic world.


Registration
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If you are interested to attend Dr. Feldman's presentation and
demonstration, please contact Raymond Devillers at the U.L.B. to
register (tel. 02/650.56.11, fax. 02/650.56.09, e-mail
ada@belgium.eu.net).

Attendance is FREE for Ada-Belgium members.

Non-members pay 200 BEF to help cover the costs of organizing these
events, or might want to consider Ada-Belgium membership now and get all
member benefits such as free access to Ada-Belgium presentations and a
significantly reduced fee for the annual seminar.  Membership
registration will be possible on-site, free Ada documents and CD-ROMs
will be available for new members.

Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels.

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium Board
ada@belgium.eu.net

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
activities: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Koninklijke
Militaire School / Ecole Royale Militaire, (K.M.S./E.R.M.), OFFIS nv/sa,
Rational Software Corporation, Trasys nv/sa, and Universite' Libre de
Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

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the Internet at the Ada-Belgium World-Wide-Web pages and is updated
regularly. Check out URL

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Dirk (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be for Ada-Belgium e-mail)

*** May 29, Mike Feldman, "Ada 95 for Personal Computers: It's Real!"
*** http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

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