Ada is The International Language
for Software Engineering

Ada Home:
An Extensive Site Guide

This is a guide to the contents of the floors of Ada Home, presented in the form of an overview. From each floor, you can usually access even more information than the numerous items listed here. Further, since this is a hypertext environment, there are often several ways to find what you are interested in.

Don't miss the HEADLINES of Ada Home,
to find out what's new in the Ada Home and in the Ada world!

Resources for Ada programmers include:

references: online language reference manuals, rationales, style guides, grammars, ACVC, ...; standards: POSIX, ASIS, Numerics, ...; bindings: X Window, Motif, Win32, Tcl/Tk, POSIX, ...; tutorials: Lovelace, LAW, AdaTutr, C/C++ to Ada, ...; book lists, reviews, and announcements;

compilers: validated, low-cost, "free", ...; tools and components: commercial and "non-commercial"; Ada meets Java; online articles: experiences, advice, research, advocacy, ...; bibliographies research references; etc.

The Ada Home Marketplace features:

our Banner Ad Program, to advertise to Ada users on the Internet; the Ada Job Center, to advertise and find Ada jobs online; the Ada Consultants Index, to register and find consultancy services;

the Bookworm's Lair, to buy the best books in our online bookshop; and lists of vendors for compilers and tools.

The Ammunition Department will help you:

learn some of the history of Ada; understand how Ada has improved and entered, under the name of Ada 95, the OO floor of the programmer's Tower of Babel; advise industry about Ada's competitive advantages in: maintainability, reliability, efficiency, portability, and reusability;

move from C/C++ to Ada; convince academia to teach Ada; spread a series of success stories; find Ada-related special interest groups; join Team Ada, an informal mailing-list for Ada advocacy issues; etc.

For those discovering Ada or who want to experiment, there are:

a summary introduction to Ada; a free online tutorial on Ada 95 (Lovelace); lists of Ada 95 books and older textbooks; information on "free" compilers; code examples;

historical documents and notes, explaining how Ada came to be what it is today; The Rogues Gallery, a who's who of the Ada world; The Picture Gallery; etc.

We provide easy network access, (but no pointers :-) to:

software repository centers, with a cornucopia of Ada goodies; WWW sites, created by individual or institutional efforts; FTP sites;

netiquette, homework about the elements of behavior on the Internet; comp.lang.ada, the Usenet newsgroup for Ada; and Info-Ada, the e-mail gateway to comp.lang.ada.

Page last modified: 1998-12-20