Ada Resource Association Adds ACT Europe to Global Membership.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Software Technology Conference SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2003 The Ada Resource Association (ARA Ara or Arrah (both: ŭ`rə), city (1991 pop. 157,082), Bihar state, NE India, on the Son Canal. A major road and rail junction, it is the administrative center for a district that produces grain, sugarcane, and oilseed. ) is pleased to announce the addition of its newest member, ACT Europe, which develops components of the GNAT gnat, common name for any one of a number of small, fragile-looking two-winged flies of the suborder Nematocera, order Diptera, which includes the families Tipulidae (crane flies), Bibionidae (hairflies), Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), Chironomidae (true midges), Pro technology for the Ada programming language. Founded and led by Cyrille Comar and Franco Gasperoni, ACT Europe is the Paris-based sister company to the long-standing ARA member Ada Core Technologies (company) Ada Core Technologies - (ACT) The company that maintains GNAT. Ada Core Technologies was founded in 1994 by the original authors of the GNAT compiler. ACT provides software for Ada 95 development. http://gnat.com/. . ACT Europe has played a major role in advancing Ada and GNAT Pro usage in the European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. software industry. "ACT Europe represents a broad base of Ada developers and embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. users," said S. Tucker Taft, president of both the ARA and of SofCheck, Inc. "They will add significantly to the ARA's effectiveness in serving the language's international community." "We fully support the ARA's objectives," Dr. Gasperoni said. "Activities such as the careful evolution of the Ada language, publication of Ada successes, and maintenance of an effective Ada information web site are very important to the language's growth. By joining the ARA we hope to bring fresh ideas and a European perspective to these activities." A leading European developer of Ada 95 technology, ACT Europe offers native, embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. , and safety-critical Ada solutions on a large variety of systems. The company specializes in project support and consulting for users of GNAT Pro Development Environment for Ada 95, a programming language designed for embedded systems. ACT Europe also develops components of GNAT Pro technology including the GtkAda graphical toolkit, the new GNAT Programming System (GPS) IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. , and the GNAT Pro High Integrity Edition. With a membership list that spans the globe, the ARA is a trade association of companies whose products and services represent more than 90 percent of the Ada development tools marketplace. For more information on Ada and on ACT Europe, please see http://www.adaic.org. |
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