AdaCore Shines Spotlight on Ada for Broad Range of Leading-Edge Applications; Ada Answers Gives Managers and Developers One-Stop Site for Information on This Modern, Powerful Programming Language www.ada-answers.com.SALT LAKE CITY -- AdaCore today introduced Ada Answers, a web portal See portal. aimed at providing managers and software developers with a comprehensive knowledge base about Ada, the programming language most often used to implement high-integrity, safety-critical and real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. . The Ada Answers web portal is dedicated to keeping developers and project managers informed about Ada and its forthcoming Ada 2005 revision, showcasing the strengths and benefits of this extremely powerful programming language. The site includes examples of companies and organizations that are successfully using Ada, highlighting some of these companies in a growing collection of video interviews. Also on video is a series of university lectures and conference presentations given by some of the foremost experts on the language, as well as an up-to-date list of Ada materials, resources and web links. "As the need for robust and reliable software systems rapidly expands, Ada continues to prove itself an excellent answer for many of today's largest and most complex programming challenges," said AdaCore president Robert Dewar. "Ada Answers helps explain Ada's distinct qualities and technical features and how they can translate into bottom-line business benefits." More than any other language, Ada was specifically designed to address issues of testing, quality assurance, functionality upgrades, platform portability, multi-language support, and similar "back end" activities. Its consistent software engineering principles make Ada, the world's first object-oriented programming language object-oriented programming language - object-oriented programming , intuitive and easy to learn. Its expressive features and strong checking make Ada a "think first, code later" discipline that translates into fewer bugs and higher productivity. "Ada has always been an attractive choice where reliability has been the overriding requirement," says Dewar. "Historically this has been in the defense and aerospace industry, but Ada is also increasingly used commercially in fields like avionics, power plants, transportation systems, communications, medical instruments, and finance. Ada includes numerous built-in features specifically optimized for financial data." AdaCore will showcase videos from Ada Answers at SSTC SSTC Security Services Technical Committee SSTC Services Fédéraux des Affaires Scientifiques, Techniques et Culturelles (Belgium office for scientific, technical and cultural affairs) SSTC Solid State Tesla Coil , Booth 431. The companies and applications to be highlighted include: --JEOL - Nuclear magnetic resonance nuclear magnetic resonance: see magnetic resonance. nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Selective absorption of very high-frequency radio waves by certain atomic nuclei subjected to a strong stationary magnetic field. for analysis of molecular structures --New Trade Research - Automated securities trading systems --Philips Semiconductor (ITEC ITEC Instituto de Tecnologia em Informática e Informação do Estado de Alagoas ITEC International Therapy Examination Council (UK) ITEC Internet Technology ITEC Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation ITEC Instructional Technologies Division) - Equipment used in the assembly of discrete semiconductors --Vienna University, Austria - Astrophysics astrophysics, application of the theories and methods of physics to the study of stellar structure, stellar evolution, the origin of the solar system, and related problems of cosmology. applications involving massively parallel computing About AdaCore Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial, open-source software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are absolutely critical. AdaCore's flagship product is 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, the commercial-grade open-source Ada development environment, which comes with expert online support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has customers worldwide; see http://www.adacore.com/customers.php for more information. Use of Ada and GNAT Pro continues to grow in high-integrity and safety-critical applications, including commercial and defense aircraft avionics, air traffic control, railroad systems, financial services and medical devices. AdaCore has North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com |
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