Tag Archives: Ada 2012

Overridable Class Attributes in Ada 2012

By Thomas Løcke | Published: January 31, 2012
One of the nicest features of the AdaCore website is the Ada Gem of the Week. Currently sitting at 117 gems, this place is a regular treasure-trove for Ada programming. Today’s gem is written by Emmanuel Briot and it deals with some of the new Ada 2012 features, specifically in relation to object oriented Ada [...]
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Final version of the Ada 2012 standard released

By Thomas Løcke | Published: December 1, 2011
Draft 14 of the Ada 2012 standard is going to be the final version of what will end up as Ada 2012, so if you have any issues with the standard, now is the time to speak up. If you want to know more about all the shiny new stuff in Ada 2012, then I’d [...]
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Ada 2012 explained by John Barnes

By Thomas Løcke | Published: July 15, 2011
As you can see from this chart, Ada 2012 is going to bring a lot of new stuff to the table. Sure, it’s not as big a step as going from 83 to 95, but there are still some pretty significant things going on. Luckily the ever industrious John Barnes has stepped up and written [...]
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GNAT GPL 2011 is out!

By Thomas Løcke | Published: June 15, 2011
And so is the 2011 versions of all the libre.adacore.com software, such as AWS, XML/Ada and GNATcoll. GNAT GPL 2011 is, as you probably know, the GPL edition of the AdaCore Ada compiler. The package comes complete with compiler and the excellent Ada/C/C++ IDE GNAT Programming Studio. Obviously there are a lot of changes and [...]
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The Ada 2012 Reference Manual (Draft)

By Thomas Løcke | Published: February 8, 2011
The ARA has made an early Ada 2012 Reference Manual Draft available to the Ada community. There’s also a link to the proposed Amendment 2 to the Ada Standard. All very nice. Of special interest to me is the new string encoding package, which looks to shape up very nicely. Also the Containers.Multiway_Trees is interesting. [...]
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