ADA

accuracy (was: Does Ada tasking profit from multi-core cpus?)
Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: If it were just inaccurate then the obtained values would be like ThreadTime + Error where Error has zero mean. No, that's "imprecise". Shots distributed evenly over a shooting target is bad precision. A tight group of shots at one side of the target is good precision but bad accur... 8 Mar 2007 16:45

Ann. of the annual release of Cheddar, a free real time scheduling analyzer
We're pleased to announce a new release of Cheddar. Cheddar is a free real time scheduling tool. Cheddar is designed for checking task temporal constraints and buffer sizes of a real time application/system. It can also help you for quick prototyping of real time schedulers. Finally, it can be used for educatio... 8 Mar 2007 10:49

CGI in Ada?
Hi, Did anyone realistically practised CGI in Ada? I know about AWS, but let's focus on "regular" web server (say, Apache) with CGI in Ada serving dynamic content. If yes, are there any reasonable libraries for handling url encoding/decoding, html entity escaping, form data retrieval, cookies, etc.? Tec... 8 Mar 2007 02:46

Rename Problem
I am trying to rename an array component, but no luck. Is this possible or am I just doing something wrong? TYPE message_array IS ARRAY (index) OF signals_record; msg : message_array; PACKAGE m1 IS NEW transmit_message (id, type); msg (1) : signals RENAMES m1.signals_record; Anthony ... 6 Mar 2007 23:17

FW: How come Ada isn't more popular?
Markus E Leypold wrote: That's fair, but I disagree. (Perhaps it's just my advancing years -- although it is weird to think of oneself as old at 48, considering I work with much older people on the ARG -- it's still old in computer years. I started out on a 4MHZ Z80 with 48K (not M!) of memory, and th... 6 Mar 2007 19:06

Ada Supercompiler?
While browsing www.supercompilers.com I began wondering if anyone has attempted doing a similiar project for Ada. Seems like Ada has enough Syntactic and Semantic information to build a pretty powerful Supercompiler. Couple that with the ASIS tools and one could build an environment that even graphics gurus woul... 24 Mar 2007 09:33

PAR (Was: Embedded languages based on early Ada)
Ray Blaak wrote: PAR would only be convenience shorthand for writing task bodies around each statement. Wouldn't "pragma Parallelize (Statement_Identifier);" be a more reasonable way to do this? As I understand the wish is to tell the compiler that these statements are a likely target for parallel execut... 10 Mar 2007 04:36

Escape Codes
Hello, I know it's not an Ada question but you guys are my last hope as I googled until my fingers bleed. Now I know that xterm will send <esc>[A on the up key and <esc>[B in the down key but could not find any informations on all the other keys - like page up page down. There must be a list somewhere. I me... 6 Mar 2007 07:10

Does Ada tasking profit from multi-core cpus?
Has someone experience with Ada tasking (especially GNAT) on multi-core systems? Show programs with several working tasks a performance boost on dual-core or quad-core cpus? _________________________________________________________________ Find what you need at prices you�ll love. Compare products and save... 8 Mar 2007 05:53

#Ada IRC channel on Freenode
This is the semi-annual reminder of the existence of the #Ada channel on the Freenode IRC network. Now over five years old, the channel is open to all discussions related to the Ada language and its use. We welcome beginners and pros alike, and do our best to maintain a friendly, productive, and informative atmos... 4 Mar 2007 16:16