Ada Language and Technique Examples

Basic

• Converting Strings to Integers and Back (Botton)
• Changing Strings to Upper or Lower Case (Botton)
• Declaring Decimal Fixed Point Types (Heaney)
• Factory Simulation - Tasks and Protected Types (Rogers)
• Free Pointers to Classwide Types (Botton)
• Tasking Hello World (Rogers)
• Non-consecutive Ranges (Taft)
• Perform operations on Roman numerals (Samir)
• Reading Long Strings Using Recursion (Carlisle)
• Simple File IO (Botton)
• Static Variables in Ada (Lundquist)
• Reading Files with Ada Streams (Hoos)
• Records and Sorting (Samir)
• The Get_Line Mystery (Heaney)
• Using Generics to Create a Menu (Lamm)
• What does Class mean in Ada95 (Heaney)
• Sets in Ada (Dennison)

Advanced

• Accessing Memory as a String (Dewar)
• Dimensional Arithmetics (Units of Measure) in Ada (Grein)
• Dealing with Linked Lists of Tasks (Rogers)
• Executing machine code in an array (Brown)
• Freeing Pointers to Tasks (Heaney)
• Garbage collection using the Storage_Size attribute (Botton)
• Implementing Interfaces in Ada (Falis)
• In Out Parameters For Functions (Heaney)
• Memory Management with Storage Pools (Vo)
• Memory Management with Storage Pools - Update (Vo)
• Modifiying the Contents of Limited Types Passed as "in" Parameters (Rosen)
• Multiple Inheritance (Taft)
• Persistence of Type Conformity in the Generic Model (Riehle)
• Persistent Objects with Ada95 (Erdmann)
• Pragma Convention(Convention => C) (Green)
• Reading Out Parameters in Ada 83 (Grein)
• Safe IO (Lamm)
• Task Safe Use of Streams (Rogers)
• Turning a read-only view of an object into a read-write view (Heaney)
• Zero Size for Access Types (Heaney)

GNAT Specific Examples

• GNAT Runtime Documentation -- Download
• GNAT Inline Assembler Tutorial (van Dijk)
• GNAT.Bubble_Sort_A Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Bubble_Sort_G Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Calendar and GNAT.Calendard.Time_IO Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Case_Util Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Directory_Operations Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Heap_Sort_A Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Heap_Sort_G Example (Botton)
• GNAT.HTable.Simple_HTable Example (Botton)
• GNAT.IO Example (Botton)
• GNAT.IO_Aux Example (Botton)
• GNAT.OS_Lib Getenv example (de Montmollin)
• GNAT.Spitbol Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Spitbol.Table Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Spitbol.Table_VString Example (Botton)
• GNAT.Table Example (Botton)

Distributed Programming

Annex E
• Adept (Waldrop)
• GLADE (ACT)

Other
• COM/DCOM
• Corba

Complete Programs

• Tic Tac Toe (Samir)
• Small - Text Adventure - from the Lovelace Tutorial (Wheeler)
• Dining Philosophers - Source requires Claw libs - Exe (Moran)
• 99 Bottle's of Beer (Robinson, et al.)

See Also

• An Invitation to Lady Ada's - Resolving ambiguous type conversions (Grein)
• Revenge (for Lady Ada's invitation) - Representation clauses and two's complement (Grein)
• Secretiveness (Grein)
• Ada 95's "With-ing" Problem