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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: About time this stupid "knocks the crap" subject was dropped!
- In-Reply-To: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca's message of 7 Mar 1996 09:36:32 -0800
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- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 21:35:39 GMT
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- In article <4hn6r0INN71t@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
-
- > Though not well informed enough about Ada. I have clearly been
- > playing the role of a skeptic. I have a hard time accepting some
- > off-the-wall claims. What good are they to _anyone_?
-
- None. Actually it is even worse as they are actively harmful.
-
-
- > I hope I can lay my hands on the Ada ISO documents. Getting a hold
- > of a library copy of the 83 will probably be easier; ISO documents
- > are expensive and hence libraries are accordintly somewhat selective
- > in their purchase orders.
-
- Well, here is "one more" nice thing about Ada :-). You can get the
- LRMs and Rationales for _free_ off the net. Either in hypertext
- format or in postscript form. All of this and more at:
-
- http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Resources/References.html
-
- And as a general overall resource locator the following has a
- wog-boggling amount of information (including the above link...)
-
- http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/
-
-
- > It's not likely that I can easily find the 1995 standard. Are there
- > cheaper, more secular ;), publications which carry much of the body
- > of the Ada standards? --
-
- You can easily find the 1995 ISO standard at the above location. At
- the second listed link above you will also find links to the FAQ and
- an annotated bibliography of a boatload of books - many now Ada95 and
- readily available.
-
- If you really want to get into it, you may as well pick up Gnat (the
- free Gnu Ada compiler). You can get binary versions for most
- platforms (including Win/95, Win/NT, Solaris[Sparc and Intel], OS/2,
- etc.) at cs.nyu.edu in pub/gnat. I can vouch that the windoze
- versions are self extracting files and the Sun versions are brain dead
- simple to install (answer a couple of questions, invoke doinstall,
- have a cup of coffee, and you are ready to rock.) Note also, that the
- above listed versions all have tasking (yes, you can write a threaded
- ap on Windoze and move it to Solaris or OS/2 with basically no
- changes. Now there's a nice bit of portability!!)
-
- Also, if you are an Emacs sort, the Ada Emacs mode is a very nice IDE
- (you get all the standard bells and whistles: syntax directed, color,
- fonts, cross reference, compiler error interaction, etc.)
-
- /Jon
- --
- Jon Anthony
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