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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Newbie wanna Ada
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:23:05 +0000 (UTC)
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On 26 Oct 2001 02:32:09 GMT, David Starner wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:52:37 +0200, Maciej Sobczak <maciej@maciejsobczak.com> wrote:
>> 1. Is there a *usual* interface in Ada for socket-related operations?
> 
> No. GNAT.Sockets (I don't remember the earlier name for this) is a
> common one, though.

But this is not yet available in the public version of Gnat is it?

>> 2. Is there some more or less standard GUI lib? I've spot a Tcl/Tk 
>> binding somewhere:
>
> The "more or less standard" GUI is GtkAda, which depends on libgtk+.

Yes. Gtakada homepage can be found here: 

   http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/

   other things like XML library and GNU Visual Debugger
   can be found from here:

   http://libre.act-europe.fr/
 
>> 5. Is there a CORBA binding implemented for Ada?
> 
> Yes. Search for ORBit-Ada.

http://www.adapower.com/corba/


Note that there are also two online books on ada as well as reference
and rational manual, see below:

Some links:

 Short Intro I           :  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ada.html
 Short Intro II          :  http://www.adaic.com/docs/flyers/95intro.html
 Short Overview          :  http://www.adaic.com/docs/flyers/95overvw.html

 Main Ada site           :  http://www.adapower.com/index2.html

 ISO Reference Manual    :  http://www.adapower.com/rm95/
 ISO Rational Manual     :  http://www.adapower.com/rationale/
 Quality and Style Guide :  http://www.adaic.com/docs/95style/html/cover.html

 Online Ada 95 book      :  http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/
 Online Ada 95 book II   :  http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/ada/ada95.pdf
 Ada 95 book reviews     :  http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada95books.html

 GNU Ada Compiler(GNAT)  :  http://www.gnat.com/
 GNAT for Linux, Dos,
 NetBSD, OS/2m SCO       :  http://www.gnuada.org/
 GNAT for Windows        :  http://home.trouwweb.nl/Jerry/

 GTKAda ToolKit (GTK+)   :  http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/
 GNADE Project           :  http://gnade.sourceforge.net/
 
Preben Randhol