I Rafal,

Frank answered your top most questions, I'll answer the graphic shader part
:-).

Go to my website (http://www.adaworld.com) and go the to "Ada Projects"  by
clicking the projects section button on the left.

You have 2 choices....

In The "Binding Projects" you'll find AdaOpenGL which is exactly what the
name inplies :-).

In the "Library Projects" You'll see Engine_3D which is a Pure Ada 3D Engine
that doesn't rely on anything else but Ada source code...

The choice is yours :-)

Hope that helps

-- 
St�phane Richard
"Ada World" Webmaster
http://www.adaworld.com


"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <spam@raf256.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm a total newbie to ada (but I know other languages like C++ quite
> well).
> > Where should I start and where I can:
> >
> > 1) download compiler (for WinXP, and other for Linux)
>
> Ada is now included in the Cygwin compiler. See http://www.cygwin.com ,
> where you can get a version of gcc that compiles C, C++, Fortran, and Ada.
>
> > 2) download IDE (if needed separetly)
>
> It's not needed, but there is a nice IDE from GNAT called GPS. See
> http://www.act-europe.com.
>
> > 3) download online documentation and tutorails
>
> Many can be found at http://www.adaic.com.
>
>
> > Btw, I heard something about that ADA is used to write computer graphics
> > shaders? or that language used to write them is simmilar to Ada?
> > If true, then where can I download tools/tutorials for playing with
> > shaders?
> >
> > TIA
> >
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