Concurrent Ada Programming

Ada’s model for doing concurrent programming is absolutely marvelous, and today I’m going to give you a small taste of it. More or less all programming languages provide tools for concurrent programming, but few do it as elegant as Ada, where the whole concept has been build into the language from it’s inception in 1983. Read more »

Ada Programming on Slackware

Over the past few months, I’ve received a whooping 4 requests for an article about how to install some basic Ada packages on a Linux system, and since 4 is a high number in my world, I decided I’d best get cracking on it. And so I did. Now we all know that Linux system Read more »

Ada with a side of JSON

So, you’ve got Ada and you need to handle some JSON data, but you’re not quite sure if there are tools available, or if you’re going to have to come up with a homegrown solution. Well, as luck will have it, you need look no further than to the excellent GNATColl library from libre.adacore.com: The Read more »

Hello world!

Yes, the title of this post is sorely missing in the creative department, but it is fitting for the first ever blog post of mine. At this point I don’t even know what to do with this blog, nor what language to use. Should I go with Danish, or fight my way through poorly spelled Read more »