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Gnat GPL 2010 available soon
The Libre site has a news item stating that Gnat GPL 2010 will be available soon: http://libre.adacore.com/libre/ Great news, as those of with Snow Leopard on Mac OS X currently don't have a free compiler available. It will also support Windows 7 (I am not sure if that is new as I haven't used Windows for a f... 27 Jun 2010 18:17

Test; Please Ignore
I apologize for the spam. -- Jeff Carter "Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!" Dr. Strangelove 33 ... 16 Jun 2010 14:21

GNAT GPL 2009 and Vista
An acquaintance is unable to get GNAT GPL 2009 to work on Vista, is anyone aware of any problems on that platform? Even the simplest program fails to build (quoting): with Ada.Text_IO; procedure Hello is use Ada.Text_IO; begin Put_Line("Hello, world!"); New_Line; Put_Line("I am an Ada program w... 16 Jun 2010 08:50

Ada in Cryptography.
The portability of Ada by means of its packages is one of the great advantages to be gained from using it as a language for encryption. The concept of Mutual database Technology being promoted by me completely obviates the key distribution problem that has soaked up so much wasted effort by cryptographers in the pa... 16 Jun 2010 03:26

A Newbie to the group.
I have only just discovered your group and I must say this is a great discovery to me – Where have I been you might ask? – now that I’m here I look forward to coming again often. My interest has been in the application of Ada-95 to cryptography for over 10 years and I can demonstrate some very powerful ciphe... 15 Jun 2010 18:44

Subtypes boundaries
Hi All, I am new to Ada and found the following declaration in my text book: type ASTERIX is range -5_000..+10_000; subtype IDEFIX is range 1..20_000; How can it be that the subtype IDEFIX can exceed the boundaries (20_000 compared to 10_000) of the superordinated type ASTERIX? If it is a subtype its boun... 17 Jun 2010 16:44

Slightly OT: Debian Community Poll
Hi Ludovic! As a Debian insider do you know the reason why Debian packages seem so outdated? It is not only gcc, I am packaging my stuff for Debian and to my amazement discovered that GtkSourceView is ancient. (Let's forget about apt used instead of rpm and yum (:-)) Is it Debian policy or lack of resources? ... 16 Jun 2010 04:30

Generic operation and prefixed notation
Hello I'm still working on a problem I asked about last week (thanks for all the answers). Another question that arose recently: is there any way of calling an instantiation of generic operation with prefixed notation? Given a simplified example: type Model is tagged record null end record; ... 14 Jun 2010 21:48

Ada related perl scripts update
Fellow Ada enthusiasts, The Ada related perl scripts have had to move home. They are now located at http://www.okellogg.de/x.html Also a few of the scripts have been updated: * ada2idl.pl 0.6 adds basic conversion of Ada variant records * ada2idl.pl 20100402 adds translation of PICTUREBUTTON Enjo... 14 Jun 2010 17:20

Improving the first contact with Ada
zeta_no writes on comp.lang.ada: On May 24, 6:45 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...(a)ludovic-brenta.org> wrote: Which tutorials specifically did you use and which ones were bad?  How would you suggest improving them? Also, do you actually _learn_ anything in tutorials?  I mean, do you learn the underl... 6 Jul 2010 16:40