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: 103376,dfbdf0cec19e98c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Matthew Heaney Subject: Re: Where'd the PAL go? Date: 1999/03/29 Message-ID: X-Deja-AN: 460243693 References: <36FF1318.E0542579@wvu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:37:04 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mike Werner writes: > I've heard the Public Ada Library mentioned a few times, so I went to > try and find it. I have included a note below from Rick Conn about ASE. He maintains the PAL and can give you the scoop. See also AdaBasis, based on the PAL: I got this link from visiting the ada home page, and following the resources link. > As a side note regarding the various threads I've seen here regarding > "Ada vs [insert language of your choice}" - I'm a Computer Science > student (sophomore) and have so far experienced C and Ada. So far I > *greatly* prefer Ada. That's good to hear. > It just makes more sense to read - when I first started I could read a > chunk of Ada code and get the basic idea of what it did. Not so with > C - it mostly looked like gibberish. Plus I'm finding it easier to do > some things in Ada than I could do in C. Were the things you found easier to do in C than in Ada? There may be a simpler but non-obvious way to do it in Ada. > Though bear in mind that I *am* still a beginner and am still doing > what would likely be to most of you as extremely simple stuff. But > from that beginner's standpoint I'm finding Ada to be the way to go, > largely because I'm finding it easier to learn. You may find it helpful to study examples of Ada95 programming. I have converted every C++ example in the GoF Design Patterns book to Ada95, and posted them to the ACM patterns list. All of the examples have been archived by month of posting. You can subscribe to the ACM patterns list by sending a message with the body subscribe patterns to the ACM mailing list server. (start of messge) From: "Richard L. Conn" Subject: ASE Website and CDROM To: TEAM-ADA@ACM.ORG Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:57:48 -0500 Reply-To: "Richard L. Conn" X-From-Line: nobody Tue Feb 23 01:09:30 1999 Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by ni1.ni.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA23406 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by mail.acm.org (8.8.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id DAA32760; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:10:14 -0500 Received: from ACM.ORG by ACM.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 133150 for TEAM-ADA@ACM.ORG; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:10:13 -0500 Received: from camel7.mindspring.com (camel7.mindspring.com [207.69.200.57]) by mail.acm.org (8.8.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id DAA29826; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:00:08 -0500 Received: from oemcomputer (user-38lcav2.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.43.226]) by camel7.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA09234; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:59:56 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Message-ID: <000001be5f02$3488b3a0$931afea9@oemcomputer> Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" X-To: Team Ada X-cc: "Richard L. Conn" , Ben Brosgol , Hal Hart X-UIDL: 53744d355b1c2f942ce918bf3085fbf4 Lines: 83 Xref: mheaney.ni.net team-ada:423 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 423 Tue Feb 23 01:09:30 1999 Hi, Everyone, For those of you who have not yet tried it out, the Ada and Software Engineering (ASE) website (with its associated 2-disc CDROM distribution) is freely available to you. This website and CDROM is like "the best of the Public Ada Library plus extras" with the added flare of serving as an archive for historical purposes. The ASE URL (which has a limit of 3,600 simultaneous users) is: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/ase/index.htm The website contains the same material as the CDROM with the exception that the Card Catalog and index on the website is oriented to the website, while the Card Catalog and index on the CDROM 2-disc set is oriented to the set. A second ASE website is expected to come online later this week. I'll post another message with instructions when it is ready. ASE's thrust is Software (and Systems) Engineering, and (by the way) Ada is an excellent language to support this activity. You can read more about ASE from its writeup on: http://www.cdrom.com/titles/prog/ada.htm You can also use this site to order a copy of the ASE CDROM 2-disc set if you wish. The ASE 2-disc CDROM set was distributed at: SIGAda '98 Ada-Belgium '98 It will also be distributed at: 1999 DoD Software Technology Conference 1999 ACM Computer Science Education Conference Spring COMDEX Some statistics: Disc ID # Dirs # Files # Bytes ======= ====== ======= ============= ASE 01_01 415 6,859 579,955,622 ASE 01_02 271 2,838 575,871,444 === ===== ============= Total 686 9,697 1,155,827,066 Of these files, many of them are ZIP files. The total number of files (counting those in ZIP files) is over 73,500. Plans are now forming to produce a 3rd ASE CDROM, ASE 01_03. As its ID implies, this CDROM will be an update to the existing 2-disc set, and the ASE Card Catalog (with Index) will cover all three discs. For those of you who are Ada fans, the Card Catalog and index were created using a family of programs written in Ada called the Generic Web-based Reuse Library (GWRL). GWRL weaves a web from information contained in asset descriptors, forming a hypertext document that is compatible with HTML 2.0 and up. GWRL (with its Ada95 source code) is included in the ASE. Disclaimer: I am managing the ASE website and acting as editor of the website and CDROMs as a public service. I receive no income from the sale of the CDROMs. I wish to thank the CDROM publisher, Walnut Creek CDROM, for supporting this activity. I wish to also thank those named in the ASE Card Catalog for their contributions to the Public Ada Library and other public distribution resources. Rick Conn ASE Manager --------------------------------------- Richard Conn, ASE, PAL, and SDE Manager http://xenadu.home.mindspring.com/ (end of message)