Media Contact:
Ann Brandon
Phone: (802) 728-9947
e-mail: info@adaresource.com
Ada RESOURCE ASSOC. REPRESENTS OVER 90% OF Ada TOOLS MARKET:
WELCOMES GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah–The Ada Resource Association has welcomed Green
Hills Software as its newest member. Green Hills Software has joined
Ada Core Technologies, Aonix, Averstar, DDC-I, OC Systems, and Rational
as members of the Ada Resource Association. Together the companies
represent over ninety percent of the Ada tools market.
S. Tucker Taft, ARA president and Technical Director of Averstar's
Distributed IT Solutions, said, "The ARA can now speak with confidence
for the Ada vendor community. I would like to thank Green Hills for
signing up as part of our team. They are already extremely
valuable partners."
At the Software Technology Conference where the ARA met, John Carbone,
Green Hills Vice President of Marketing, said, "Ada has proven to be a
significant, growing business for us. Its being a standard is a strong
selling point. Of course, the language will continue to evolve to stay
at the forefront of technological innovations. Through the ARA, Green
Hills will be able to support and influence those changes, and help
enlarge the market for Ada software."
The ARA is actively engaged in meeting the expanding requirements of the
worldwide Ada user community. Formed in 1989 as the Ada Software
Alliance, its objective is to promote and enhance the use of the Ada
language and associated software engineering technology in applications
and programs that benefit the customer.
Green Hills Software, Inc., has invested over $30 million in research
and development since its inception in 1982. The company has always
concentrated on 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessors intended for use in
embedded applications. In 1990, Green Hills Software added the MULTI(R)
Integrated Software Development Environment, including AdaMULTI(R), to
its product line. Head quartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., with
branches in a dozen other national and international offices, Green
Hills has centralized its Ada Operations in Palm Harbor, Fla..
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For more general information on Ada and the ARA members, please check
the following sites:
http://www.adaresource.com
http://www.adaresource.com/intro/overview.html
http://www.adaresource.com/docs/flyers/whyada.html
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BACKGROUND MATERIAL
The History and Future of the Ada Programming Language
Named in honor of the world's first computer programmer, Augusta Ada
Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, Ada is a high-level programming
language designed to support the construction of long- lived, highly
reliable software systems.
The Ada programming language was designed under US Dept. of Defense
auspices for applications where correctness, safety, and reliability are
the prime goals. In 1983, Ada became a standard, with a revision in
1995.
As the first internationally standardized object-oriented programming
language, Ada 95 is well suited for developing reusable components,
real-time and parallel processing systems, and interfaces with systems
written in other languages. Advanced features include: a high level of
abstraction, strong typing, OOP characteristics (classes, inheritance,
polymorphism, late binding), and tasking constructions.
The new standard of Ada 95 was designed and developed by an
international process of unprecedented scale for a programming language.
A Board of Distinguished Reviewers representing six different countries
and comprising 28 world-renowned leaders in academia and industry
provided oversight and evaluation of the immense input from the
international community of users.
The revision, which required over four years to complete, is an update
of the 1987 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) release
and the equivalent 1983 American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Ada
standard.
ISO delegates unanimously accepted the revision. Ada 95 also received
ANSI approval, following a period of public review and comment, and has
been adopted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a
Federal Information Processing Standard.
The capabilities of Ada 83 were enhanced for Ada 95 through the
definition of a small number of new "building blocks" in three basic
areas: object oriented programming, programming in the large, and
real-time and parallel programming. In each case, the revision team used
existing features as the basis for enhanced capabilities. The language
is fully portable and successfully addresses programming concerns such
as the effective integration of legacy systems and upward compatibility,
as well as efficient "programming in the large," the development of very
large programs, which are often over one million lines of code.
This building process ensured that the revision was a natural evolution,
one that would increase Ada's popularity with new users, while
maintaining its appeal to existing users. The goal was to enhance the
language to support new and more complex system implementations, but not
to disrupt its use in existing applications. To achieve this, Ada 95
retains the inherent integrity and efficiency of its predecessor, as the
first advanced building block language to assemble a host of important
features, while adhering to the demands of modern software engineering
practice.
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