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Wednesday
March 10th, 2004
Welcome to Ada World a brand new Ada related website. Ada World is a place where you can find a good wealth of Ada related subjects. There is a lot of things to cover when dealing with a programming language website and Ada is no different than the rest. As you can see from the menu on the left, you have plenty of choices as to what to do next. First time visitors will probably want to visit each section as they each contain useful and different types of information. Everyone that is used to this website by now can just skip to their topics of interest. The choice is yours.
The next section describes each general section of the website so you know exactly where things are located. For new visitors, you might want to take a quick look at it to help you navigate through all the contents of Ada World.
This is where you'd go to find out everything there is to find out about this website. Namely its creation, a bit of history on how the idea to make this website came to my mind, and what can be expected from this web site.
Whenever something new happens with Ada World it will be stated here. whether it's an update to the website, or whether a new project has been added to the website, a new code snippet, anything that happens to this website will be stated here.
The Site map is there for your convenience, it indicates clearly, in a hierarchy what the different sections of the website actually contain, along with what it already has for quick and easy access. If you're looking for something specific and can't see it, this is where you should go, your best bet to finding what you're looking for in a reasonable amount of time.
Ever wondered what's so good about Ada? Don't know why Ada programmers don't want to swich to anything else? What makes Ada as good as we say it is? What features of Ada are only available in Ada and make it the Top Dog of programming languages? You can find out here. You can find language comparisons, Ada specific list of features, and documents that talk about these features, explain them clearly so you not only know what features there are, but how to use them to your advantage in your Ada development projects.
If you want to learn how to program in Ada. The Ada Learning Center is where you'll want to go. This section is filled with Ada tutorials, Online books you can download and/or view online. Covering every aspects of learning Ada and beyond. Whether you jsut want to get an idea of how Ada works, or if you want to learn Ada most advanced topics, there's something here for you.
This is where you can read about and get a hold of what's currently being developed in the Ada Language. So if you're curious about what's going on in the world of Ada, this is where you'll want to ge. Essentially projects are broken down into Applications, Bindings, Libraries and tools categories. Depending on what you want to see, you'll be able to find them in one of those categories.
Got a useful trick when developing in Ada? Got an IDE to recommend? Wonder how to set a binding up so that it gets compiled right with your project? That's the kind of thing you can expect to find on this category. If you have a technical question let us know through our Feedback Form and it will get added right in this section. Unlike the Code Snippets, your tips and tricks might have Ada code related to them but wouldn't represent a full working procedure or function.
Want a sorting algorithm? Wanna know how to parse a string? This is the kind of questions you can answer in this section. Little bits of Ada source code to get the job done. Many categories of useful code you can search through and use quickly and easily. You can use our Feedback Form to share your own code snippets so feel free to do so.
Ada World is an endless work in progress. A lot of projects are too. To know which direction to turn I will be posting surveys as to what I should do, or not. Like wise, if you have a project hosted here or have a project hosted somewhere else but are updating us on work updates and you want to post a survey for your project's future ideas and additions. Again use our Feedback Form and let us know about it. Anything that can make your Ada development project move forward we'll help you with by giving you a location (this website) where you can post project's surveys.
This is exactly what it says it is, a feedback form. Do you like or dislike this website? Do you know exactly what Ada World needs to be better? Do you want to create a project and have it hosted here? Do you have a link that you didn't find in our Related Links section? Then this is where you can go to let me know.
I say your forum because that's exactly what it is. You want to talk about something you learned about Ada? You have a suggestion for the next Ada revision and want to talk about it with others? Do you want an idea for a new project but just dont know what to do? This is what your Forum is for. Ask away, and you'll get answered. To talk about, share and ask Anything you might be interested in. Read what others have to say about existing subjects.
This is a forum specifically made to talk about, work on, update people on the progress of your work on your project(s). There is already one project setup in there if you want to go see what it's all about. And if you have a project that you want added to this forum, let me know with the feedback form and I'll add it promptly.
I've been doing some research to find out what exists as far, as Ada is concerned, on the web. This is the results of my searches. the best of Ada is within this category I am updating this section constantly as I find new contents on the web. If you have a website, or know of a website that isn't listed here by all means, let me know through the Feedback Form so I can add it to the list and make sure it's up to date.
In conclusion, I'd like to invite you to come back often. Projects will be added as they are created or transfered, WIKIs will be created in the same manner. In brief, the website will be constantly changing to add new useful information about Ada, Ada development projects and Ada events. So be sure to check this website often. I've enjoyed creating this website because I believe in what Ada can really do and because I love to design websites. I hope you enjoyed your visit and will come back again.
Stéphane Richard
Software Developer
Ada World webmaster