ada

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ada - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ADA
      n 1: an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the
           deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia; "ADA
           deficiency can lead to one form of severe combined
           immunodeficiency disease"; "the gene encoding ADA was one
           of the earlier human genes to be isolated and cloned for
           study" [syn: adenosine deaminase, ADA]

ada - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Ada
  
     <language> (After Ada Lovelace) A Pascal-descended
     language, designed by Jean Ichbiah's team at CII Honeywell
     in 1979, made mandatory for Department of Defense software
     projects by the Pentagon.  The original language was
     standardised as "Ada 83", the latest is "Ada 95".
  
     Ada is a large, complex, block-structured language aimed
     primarily at embedded applications.  It has facilities for
     real-time response, concurrency, hardware access and
     reliable run-time error handling.  In support of large-scale
     software engineering, it emphasises strong typing, data abstraction
      and encapsulation.  The type system uses name equivalence
      and includes both subtypes and derived types.
     Both fixed and floating-point numerical types are supported.
  
     Control flow is fully bracketed: if-then-elsif-end if,
     case-is-when-end case, loop-exit-end loop, goto.  Subprogram
     parameters are in, out, or inout.  Variables imported from
     other packages may be hidden or directly visible.  Operators
     may be overloaded and so may enumeration literals.  There
     are user-defined exceptions and exception handlers.
  
     An Ada program consists of a set of packages encapsulating
     data objects and their related operations.  A package has a
     separately compilable body and interface.  Ada permits
     generic packages and subroutines, possibly parametrised.
  
     Ada support single inheritance, using "tagged types" which
     are types that can be extended via inheritance.
  
     Ada programming places a heavy emphasis on multitasking.
     Tasks are synchronised by the rendezvous, in which a task
     waits for one of its subroutines to be executed by another.
     The conditional entry makes it possible for a task to test
     whether an entry is ready.  The selective wait waits for
     either of two entries or waits for a limited time.
  
     Ada is often criticised, especially for its size and
     complexity, and this is attributed to its having been designed
     by committee.  In fact, both Ada 83 and Ada 95 were designed
     by small design teams to be internally consistent and tightly
     integrated.  By contrast, two possible competitors, Fortran 90
      and C++ have both become products designed by large and
     disparate volunteer committees.
  
     See also Ada/Ed, Toy/Ada.
  
     Home of the Brave Ada Programmers (http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/)
     .  Ada FAQs (http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/FAQ/)
      (hypertext), text only (ftp://lglftp.epfl.ch/pub/Ada/FAQ)
     .
  
     (http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/),
     (ftp://ajpo.sei.cmu.edu/),
     (ftp://stars.rosslyn.unisys.com/pub/ACE_8.0).
  
     E-mail: <adainfo@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>.
  
     Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.ada.
  
     An Ada grammar (ftp://primost.cs.wisc.edu/) including a lex
     scanner and yacc parser is available.  E-mail:
     <masticol@dumas.rutgers.edu>.
  
     Another yacc grammar and parser for Ada by Herman Fischer (ftp://wsmr-simtel20.army.mil/PD2:<ADA.EXTERNAL-TOOLS>GRAM2.SRC)
     .
  
     An LR parser and pretty-printer for Ada from NASA is
     available from the Ada Software Repository.
  
     Adamakegen generates makefiles for Ada programs.
  
     ["Reference Manual for the Ada Programming Language", ANSI/MIL
     STD 1815A, US DoD (Jan 1983)].  Earlier draft versions
     appeared in July 1980 and July 1982.  ISO 1987.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (2000-08-12)
  

ada - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  ADA
         Automatic Data Acquisitions
         

ada - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Ada, KS
    Zip code(s): 67414
  Ada, MI
    Zip code(s): 49301
  Ada, MN (city, FIPS 172)
    Location: 47.29952 N, 96.51393 W
    Population (1990): 1708 (881 housing units)
    Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Ada, OH (village, FIPS 198)
    Location: 40.76884 N, 83.82386 W
    Population (1990): 5413 (1857 housing units)
    Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 45810
  Ada, OK (city, FIPS 200)
    Location: 34.77701 N, 96.66041 W
    Population (1990): 15820 (7602 housing units)
    Area: 33.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 74820