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Get started writing software in the most advanced yet easily learned programming language in the world. Ada is the time-tested, safe and secure programming language used for long-lived critical application development.
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Benefits and Features of Ada
Benefits
- Development cost savings
- Maturity of language and implementations
- Freely available international standard
- Interoperability with other languages
- Ease of training programmers
- Successful usage in practice
- Software portability
- Professional grade Open Source compilers
Features
- Support for “programming in the large”
- Flexibility
- Data Abstraction and Information Hiding
- Reusability
- Concurrency support
- Methodology neutrality
- Real-time support
- Mission and Safety-critical support
Step 1 - Install Ada
Install on FreeBSD and DragonFly
- Run: pkg install gps-ide
More information on Ada related ports are available in the Ada Programming Wiki Book.
Install on GNU/Linux
- For Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint Run: aptitude install gnat
- For Gentoo Run: emerge dev-lang/gnat
- For Fedora Run: yum install fedora-gnat-project-common gprbuild
More information on Ada related ports are available in the Ada Programming Wiki Book.
Install on Mac OS X
- Download from the gnuada sourceforge site.
- cd /
- sudo tar jxvf ~/Downloads/gcc-4.9.1-x86_64-apple-darwin13.tar.bz2
- put /opt/gcc-4.9.1/bin first on your PATH.
- If you wish to use the gdb debugger without being root see how to codesign the debugger. (This is _not_ required to get started.)
Install on Windows
- TDM-GCC is the most current version of gcc/ada available for 32 and 64bit Windows. Make sure to add Ada under the options for languages during installation
- Git For Windows SDK has a full 32 and 64 bit FSF GNAT and Mingw32 or 64 dev environment out of the box.
- MingGW 32bit install
- Cygwin 32 or 64bits Install the MinGW versions of gcc/ada compiler from within cygwin unless compiling GPL licensed code, executables will not use Unix like paths, etc and be true Windows executables. (To compile use x86_64-mingw32-gnatmake (for 64bits) or i686-w64-ming32-gnatmake (for 32bits))
- Install GWindows for GUI programming from The Gnavi Project on Sourceforge
A commercial Ada '95 compiler good for Ada starters on Windows including CLAW for GUI programming is available from RR Software
Step 3 - Share Ada with Others
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The Ada Mascot
Lady Fairy, the Ada Language Mascot, by Leah Goodreau was the winner of a communtiy wide contest for an Ada Mascot.
My mascot was inspired by Ada Lovelace's adolescent fascination with flight and Charles Babbage's nickname for her, "Lady Fairy." The coloration of the mascot references the Asian fairy-bluebird, while the silhouette is a hummingbird because of their famed speed and sleekness.
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