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: 13fca4,c5c2b696e663d720,start X-Google-Attributes: gid13fca4,public X-Google-Thread: f891f,c5c2b696e663d720,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 111c4c,c5c2b696e663d720,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111c4c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c5c2b696e663d720,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1082b6,c5c2b696e663d720,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1082b6,public From: dirk@galatea.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Subject: "Ada 95 for Personal Computers: It's Real!" - May 29 - Ada-Belgium Date: 1997/05/21 Message-ID: <5lvcfn$r5e@galatea.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> X-Deja-AN: 242895576 Distribution: world Summary: Do not delay to register! Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. Computer Science, K.U.Leuven X-URL: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.misc,be.comp,nl.comp,deptcw.misc Date: 1997-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------ 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 ------- 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 ---------------- 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 ------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information on this and other Ada-Belgium events is available on the Internet at the Ada-Belgium World-Wide-Web pages and is updated regularly. Check out URL http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 -- Dirk Craeynest | OFFIS nv/sa | Email: Dirk.Craeynest@ Ada-Belgium | c/o Eurocontrol - CFMU | eurocontrol.be Ada-Europe | Raketstraat 96 | Phone: ++32(2)729.97.36 Team Ada | B-1130 Brussel, Belgium | Fax: ++32(2)729.90.22 +------------/ E-mail: ada@belgium.eu.net |Ada-Belgium/ WWW: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/ | on the / FTP: ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium |Internet / Mail-server: mail-server@cs.kuleuven.ac.be +--------/ Mailing list: ada-belgium-info-request@cs.kuleuven.ac.be