Information on Ada

Download Free Compiler and IDE

• Download from Ada Core


• Another source is Get Ada Now

Compile and Run Online

• For small programs, you can compile and run here

Online Ada Books, Tutorials, and References

Here are some sites that are useful for learning gnat and the Ada language:

• Ada Quick Notes

• Ada95: The Craft of Object Oriented Programming

• Lovelace Ada Tutorial

• Ada in Action (by Do-While Jones)

• Ada Distilled (pdf)

Ada at Language Comparison Pages

Here are the Ada pages at some sites that compare programming languages:

• Ada page from Syntax Across Languages


• Ada Hello World Page from the Hello World Project and here's another Hello World Page


• 99 Bottles: Standard Version and a Multitasking Version from 99 Bottles

Ada Reference Material

Here is some Ada reference material:

• Ada standard library documentation (Ada 95 API Documentation)

• Ada standard library packages source code (Link currently broken)

• Gnat User's Guide (This guide may be for a different version of the compiler, but it should still be accurate for our needs.)
• Section on gnatmake
• GNU Gnat Coding Style


• Ada Standards

Ada Books

• In addition to your text, the best reference book (unfortunately not updated for Ada 2005): Ada as a Second Language, Norman H. Cohen


• Other books are listed in some of the links below.

Other Ada Links

• AdaCore

• Ada Information Clearinghouse

• Praxis High Integrity Systems

• ACM SIGAda Home Page

• Google Ada Page

• comp.lang.ada from Google - Ada questions and answers