"Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers" - Sep 24 - Ada-Belgium

"Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers" - Sep 24 - Ada-Belgium

[Dirk Craeynest]

The following announcement was just posted to the Ada-Belgium mailing
lists.  Everyone interested is welcome.

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium

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Forwarded message:

From: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject: "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers" - Sep 24 - Ada-Belgium
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:31:43 +0200 (MET DST)


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                          Ada-Belgium Meeting

                   "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers"

           a technical presentation by Simon Johnston (U.K.)

                     Wednesday, September 24, 1997
                    Cimad Institute, Bornem, Belgium

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

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    You are a professional programmer using C and C++ to get a job
    done; you know the strengths and weaknesses of the language you
    use.  What if I were to offer you a tool that could almost
    eradicate all those pointer problems for you (memory leaks,
    dangling pointers), solve all those array bounds problems for
    you (running off the end of arrays), and eradicate all those
    header file inconsistency problems for you? You have seen, as I
    have, a number of tools you can use to improve the safety and
    reliability of your code, you run them periodically to report
    on a file or two.  This tool will work on your whole project,
    it runs every time you compile (at no extra cost!), and will
    guarantee that you cannot proceed until you have fixed
    problems.  What is this new tool? An Ada compiler; start
    writing your next project in Ada95 and reap the benefits of
    static safe typing backed up with dynamic run-time checking
    and you have a programming environment that will improve the
    reliability of your software and your faith in it. 

    (from "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers" by Simon Johnston,
    published by Addison Wesley Longman, ISBN 0-201-40363-3)


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
Wednesday, September 24, 1997, from 19:30 until 22:00 (tentative time,
to be confirmed), at the Cimad Institute, Bornem, i.e. the new offices
of Cimad Consultants (south of Antwerp).

Speaker will be Simon Johnston, who will present his recently published
book "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers", and situate it in the larger
context of programming language selection for your projects.

You can check on-line how to get to the Cimad Campus by car (cfr. URL
mentioned above).


Speaker
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Simon Johnston is a member of the Architecture and Platform Technology
Group at ICL Retail Systems Europe where he is responsible for the
architectural design and implementation of advanced in-store and
enterprise solutions for major retailers all over the world.  He is
also a member of the marketing committee of Ada Language UK, a
not-for-profit organization which promotes the development and use of
Ada and represents the needs and interests of its users, where he has
special responsibility for the organization's web-site.


Some relevant links
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on Simon Johnston's book "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers"

  * Info at Addison Wesley Longman
    http://www.aw.com/cseng/authors/johnston/afc/afc.html
  * Short bio of Simon Johnston
    http://heg-school.aw.com/cseng/authors/johnston/about-johnston.html
  * Foreword by Michael Feldman
    http://www.adahome.com/articles/1997-07/bk_johnston_fw.html
  * Book Review by Magnus Kempe
    http://www.adahome.com/articles/1997-07/bk_johnston.html
  * Short Book Review by Michael Feldman
    http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Books/ada95reviews.html#sjohnston
  * On-line sampler of the book
    http://www.acm.org/~skj/CppToAda/


Registration
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If you are interested to attend Simon Johnston's presentation, please
contact Ada-Belgium to register (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 Bornem.

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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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

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

*** Sep 24, Simon Johnston, "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers"
*** Nov 28, Ada-Belgium'97, "Developing Distributed Applications"
*** http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

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