Here are some recent updates to our Free Tools and Libraries page:| Ada Resource Association
The AdaIC is happy to announce a new service, providing links to the Ada User Journal (AUJ) News Digests as each becomes available.| Ada Resource Association
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 (WG 9) is responsible for the maintenance and revision of the Ada Programming Language and associated standards and technical reports. As part of the language maintenance activity, WG 9 has established a group of Ada experts as the Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG). The ARG receives input from the Ada community at large to consider for inclusion in revision to the Ada programming language standard. The WG 9 has produced a number of revisions to the language in accordance wit...| Ada Resource Association
Tomek Walkuski has been posting a series of interviews with software developers interested in the Ada programming language. His goal is to promote both the Ada language and the Ada community. You can find the interviews on his site.| Ada Resource Association
We recently received a note from Dr. Carl Brandon of the Vermont Technical College (and Director of their CubeSat laboratory). He mentioned that he will be a keynote speaker at Ada Europe 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. A lengthier description of the conference keynotes can be found at http://ae2018.di.fc.ul.pt/keynotes.html.| Ada Resource Association
A recent Reddit post describes one programmer’s transition to Ada: | Ada Resource Association
The ARA congratulates Dr. Peter Chapin on his receipt of ACM SIGAda’s Robert Dewar Award, which acknowledges outstanding contributions to the Ada community. Dr. Chapin was a major contributor to the Vermont Tech Lunar CubeSat project (cubesatlab.org) whose software was written in SPARK/Ada. The Vermont Tech CubeSat was launched in November 2013 and successfully completed its full two-year mission, the only one out of twelve academic CubeSats to do so. Dr. Chapin attributes the software’s ...| Ada Resource Association
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 (WG 9) is responsible for the maintenance and revision of the Ada Programming Language and associated standards and technical reports. As part of the language maintenance activity, WG 9 has established a group of Ada experts as the Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG). The ARG receives input from the Ada community at large to consider for inclusion in revision to the Ada programming language standard. The WG 9 has produced a number of revisions to the language in accordance...| Ada Resource Association
The president of the ARA, Ben Brosgol, has unearthed a part of Ada Prehistory, a document from June 1976 titled “A Common Programming Language for the Department of Defense – Background and Technical Requirements”. We’ve posted it in the AdaIC archives in the Policy and History section. You can access it directly at http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/history/Fisher-P-1191.pdf. (Warning: this is a 7.5 megabyte file.)| Ada Resource Association
The consolidated Ada Reference manual is now available in EMACS info format, through the efforts of Stephen Leake. Find out more at his site — http://stephe-leake.org/ada/arm.html. The consolidated Ada 2012 Reference manual includes the original third edition (Ada 2012) and the corrections from Technical Corrigendum 1.| Ada Resource Association