The theme of TRI-Ada '91, "Ada: Today's Accomplishments; Tomorrow's Expectations," emphasizes the maturity of Ada tools, technology, techniques, and infrastructure. It also reflects the Ada community's concern that it enhance the next generation of products and increase the number of future users. In addition, papers and special "preview" events are scheduled to review the on-going Ada 9X effort and to outline what we can expect from it in the future. Government, industry, and academia - the "tri" in TRI-Ada - are well represented on the organizing committee, in the Conference program, and on the Exposition floor.
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Ada: plugging in the power tool
Grady Booch:
"Give a power drill to a carpenter who knows nothing about electricity, and he would use it as a hammer. He will end up bending quite a few nails and smashing several fingers, for a power drill makes a lousy hammer."
The use of anna specification technology in ada software development
Sections of this paper are reprinted from David C. Luckham. Programming with Specifications: An Introduction to ANNA, a language for Specifying Ada Programs (Texts and Monographs in Computer Science). Copyright 1990, Springer-Verlag.
Introduction to the X window system for ada
This work was sponsored by DARPA under STARS contract no. F19628-88-D-0031. Distribution Statement "A" - Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.