Ada Resource Association

An updated edition of the Ada 2012 Rationale is available at:

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rationale12.html

This edition of the Rationale combines the first seven chapters of the Rationale into a single document, fixes a number of errors, adds an index, and adds discussion of various details of Ada 2012 that were changed since the original publication of these chapters in the Ada User Journal. We expect that additional chapters will be added to this edition roughly every three months.

The Rationale for Ada 2012 provides an overview of new Ada 2012 features, examples of their use, compatibility with Ada 95 and 2005, and more. It was written by John Barnes, and was sponsored in part by the Ada Resource Association. This is an unofficial description of the language; refer to the Ada 2012 standard for detailed language rules.

Randy Brukardt, ARG Editor

Based on a discussion on comp.lang.ada, we’ve created a new category on our “Learning Materials” for social media sites, and added links to the Ada groups on a number of them:

• Stackoverflow – Questions and answers for programmers
• Google+ – Ada Programming Community
• LinkedIn – Ada Group

All of these provide places to get help and information about Ada from other Ada users. We also added Planet Ada, a news and information site, to the website listings. These join the Reddit and Wikibooks sites, along with the old stand-by of the comp.lang.ada newsgroup, as places to go for Ada information.