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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

FreeBSD and DragonFly
GNU/Linux
Mac OS X
Windows
Raspbian on Raspberry Pi
Ready to Dev - Virtual Machine Images
Ada for Microcontrollers

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Install on FreeBSD and DragonFly

Run: pkg install gps-ide

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

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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.

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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.)

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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

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

Run: apt-get install gnat

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Download a Virtual Machine

Docker: nacyot / ada-gnat

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Step 2 - Learn Ada

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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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