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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:45:10 -0600 Subject: Re: Why *.adb and *.ads? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: From: Norman Worth Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:45:09 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-56HrhCfuTYMzqQ5ZqN6o56060caIC1tQ05xQY2CxzX6QKM50z1Yplp8CcP9POCInGcgiXN7cqVKrr31!cdjQDeJnchT3oHig8kb1ynjxmVXEGOyazaLPhNX3vLqTHW8A/9FYQw0f0m5Cas6oubRUbo54kzIN X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1608 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50183 Date: 2018-01-27T08:45:09-07:00 List-Id: Andrew Shvets wrote: > I'm curious, why do the source files in Ada have the file endings of *.ads and *.adb? Is there a reason for this? Or any background story? > This has nothing to do with the Ada language. It is a characteristic of the GNAT Ada compiler, which is probably the most common Ada compiler. Other compilers may use other tags to identifier their source files. I've seen .ada commonly.