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

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Install on FreeBSD and DragonFly

More information on Ada related ports are available in the Ada Programming Wiki Book.


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Install on GNU/Linux

More information on Ada related ports are available in the Ada Programming Wiki Book.


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Install on Mac OS X


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Install on Windows

Install GPR Tools (gprbuid, gprclean, etc.) by unzipping gpr-tools.zip into the base dir of the GNAT install (for example C:\TDM-GCC-64)

A commercial Ada '95 compiler good for Ada starters on Windows including CLAW for GUI programming is available from RR Software


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Install on Raspbian on Raspberry Pi


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Download a Virtual Machine


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Step 2 - Learn Ada


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.
Leah Goodreau
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