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: f891f,6b5e9c4f84c9002e,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 1082b6,6b5e9c4f84c9002e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1082b6,public X-Google-Thread: 111c4c,6b5e9c4f84c9002e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111c4c,public X-Google-Thread: 1411c0,6b5e9c4f84c9002e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1411c0,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,6b5e9c4f84c9002e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dirk@galatea.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Subject: "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers" - Sep 24 - Ada-Belgium Date: 1997/09/15 Message-ID: <5vk37l$12u@galatea.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> X-Deja-AN: 272746341 X-URL: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html Distribution: world Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.misc,be.comp,nl.comp,kuleuven.faculty.tw.cs.misc Date: 1997-09-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The following announcement was just posted to the Ada-Belgium mailing lists. Everyone interested is welcome. Dirk Craeynest Ada-Belgium ------- Forwarded message: From: Dirk Craeynest Subject: "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers" - Sep 24 - Ada-Belgium Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:31:43 +0200 (MET DST) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------ 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 ------- 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 ------------------- 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 ------------ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) *** 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 -- 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 Board) |Ada-Belgium / WWW: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/ |on Internet/ FTP: ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium +----------/ Mail-list: ada-belgium-info-request@cs.kuleuven.ac.be