[GAP] Ada 2005 API

[Edmond Schonberg]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Edward G. Okie wrote:

> Does anyone know of an Ada API specification anywhere on the web?
>
> My students who are learning Ada frequently ask me whether there is an
> Ada API specification available on the web.  When they learned Java,
> they typically relied heavily on the online Java API, and as they are

This may be the problem.  The core of the language is quite  
independent of API's.  The type model, the control structures,  
subprograms and parameter passing,  genericity, concurrency, etc. do  
not need any API's to be understood.  If your students are looking  
for other interfaces when the core of the language provides  
everything they need, they are  looking in the wrong place.  This  
means that the motivation must be other than to write web  
applications, of course.

> learning Ada they are a bit frustrated to not have a similar  
> reference.
> There is a version for Ada 95 available on the AdaBrowse site, but I
> don't know of anything similar for Ada 05.  The Ada Reference Manual
> does provide similar information, but they want something closer to  
> the
> Java API.
>

Ed Schonberg