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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:30:25 +0200
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Le Thu, 20 May 2010 15:59:03 +0200, Alex Mentis <asmentis@gmail.com> a  =

=E9crit:
> A frequently-cited weakness in the academic area is that there are not=

> a lot
> of people developing packages for Ada that students can use to achieve=

> a
> high level of functionality for a low cost (in time) of learning.
> Students
I remember Jean-Pierre Rosen, telling how some people think there is not=
  =

library available in Ada for this and that. He explained most of of time=
s,  =

people was surprised when he gave them a link to the material they were =
 =

seeking for.

Here is a list of bindings which may be of interest (I'm not using this =
 =

material myself, so cannot tell more):
http://archive.adaic.com/docs/flyers/free-bindings.html

-- =

There is even better than a pragma Assert: a SPARK --# check.