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Summary: Home of the Brave Ada Programmers (HBAP WWW Server)
        introduction.  Does *not* get into Ada programming questions
          [for that see the companion Ada/programming FAQ].
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               Ada FAQ: The Home of the Brave Ada Programmers
                              (HBAP WWW Server)

  In this FAQ you will find: an overview of the contents of the HBAP WWW
  server (the Home of the Brave Ada Programmers), general information on
  WWW, and references to some available WWW browsers.

   Recent changes to this FAQ are listed in the first section after the table
   of contents. This document is under explicit copyright.

Table of Contents:

    * Introduction
    * What's On The HBAP WWW Server?
    * Cross-referencing
    * Submission Directions
    * Other Ada-Related WWW Servers
    * What is WWW?
    * Some WWW browsers
    * Copying this FAQ


Recent changes to this FAQ

    * 960531: more minor updates (new material, other Ada-related WWW
      servers).
    * 960123: minor updates and corrections.
    * 950915: www-through-email service no longer available.
    * 950621: update of the information on WWW browsers and email
      access.
    * 950420: minor extensions and revisions.
    * 950124: approved for posting in *.answers.
    * 950119: new material in the Home of the Brave Ada Programmers.


    _________________________________________________________________

Introduction

  The HBAP WWW Server is a hypertext information server to help
  disseminate information about the Ada programming language. It is
  alive and heavily used. The HBAP was created and is managed by Magnus
  Kempe.

  The URL of HBAP is
  http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/
  [don't forget the trailing '/'; and it's 'Ada', neither 'ADA' nor
  'ada'].

  The HBAP Ada WWW server keeps growing. All comments, ideas,
  contributions, and requests for additions or corrections, are most
  welcome. Email should be directed to the maintainer,
  [email protected]

  HBAP is physically located at the Software Engineering Lab of the
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

  The latest version of this FAQ is always accessible through WWW as
  http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/FAQ/ada-www-server.html#title

Maintenance

  This FAQ is maintained on an individual volunteer basis, by Magnus
  Kempe ([email protected]). [Note: This is done as a hobby, not
  in my capacity as an employee at the Swiss Federal Institute of
  Technology. --MK]

Information about this document

  This file is posted monthly to comp.lang.ada, comp.answers, and
  news.answers.

  This document has a home on the HBAP, in hypertext format, URL
  http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/FAQ/ada-www-server.html#title

  It is available --as posted in *.answers-- on rtfm.mit.edu, which
  archives all FAQ files posted to *.answers; see directory
  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/computer-lang/Ada

  The text-only version is also available in directory
  ftp://lglftp.epfl.ch/pub/Ada/FAQ

  Magnus Kempe maintains this document; it's a hobby, not a job.
  Feedback (corrections, suggestions, ideas) about it is to be sent via
  e-mail to [email protected]
  Thanks.

  In all cases, the most up-to-date version of the FAQ is the version
  maintained on the HBAP WWW Server. Please excuse any formatting
  inconsistencies in the posted version of this document, as it is
  automatically generated from the on-line version.

What's On The HBAP WWW Server?

  The HBAP WWW Server provides Ada-related information and hypertext
  access in areas including but not limited to:
    * Reference Texts
         + hypertext versions of RM 95 and LRM 83
         + text of RM 95 and LRM 83
         + hypertext version of the Ada 95 Rationale
         + text of the Ada 83 Rationale
    * Resources
         + standards
         + bindings
         + tools and components
         + software repositories
         + lists of books and articles, and bibliographies
         + online papers
         + research activities
         + access to the current list of validated compilers
         + cheap and free compilers
         + educational discounts
         + lists of compiler and tool vendors
         + CD-ROMs
    * Intellectual Ammunition
         + some facts about the language
         + Ada 9X, and state of revision process (the name is Ada 95)
         + moving from C/C++ to Ada
         + Ada in academia (e.g. who teaches Ada, textbooks, educational
           discounts)
         + Ada in industry (e.g. success stories)
         + special interest groups
         + debunking myths
    * Introductory Material
         + design goals and summary of the language
         + an excellent free online tutorial on Ada 95 (Lovelace)
         + an annotated list of textbooks
         + information about free compilers
    * Frequently Asked Questions--with Answers
         + comp.lang.ada
         + Programming with Ada
         + Learning Ada
         + Ada WWW
         + PAL
         + Team-Ada
    * FTP Sites --with Mirrors-- and other Ada-related WWW Servers
    * Ada-related Conferences, News and Events
         + conferences, workshops (calls for papers, programs)
         + calendar
         + press releases
         + technical and other news
    * Historical Notes on Ada
         + the Lady and the programming language
    * Ada Picture Gallery


  For instance, you will find the list of schools using Ada in CS1 or
  CS2, articles on commercial success stories, information about
  software components, as well as hypertext versions of the Ada
  reference manual (both 83 and draft 9X).

Cross-referencing

  The main entry point to the HBAP WWW Server is the page "Home of the
  Brave Ada Programmers", located at URL

   http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/

  Don't forget the trailing slash!

  If you reference the HBAP WWW Server in a document, you should use the
  name "Home of the Brave Ada Programmers" -- or possibly "HBAP" or "The
  HBAP WWW Server".

  The URL and names indicated above are the reference you should HREF if
  you want to keep a pointer to this page (other references are subject
  to change anytime--well, it's not quite that drastic, but they're not
  cast in electronic stone). For instance, using Netscape, you can use
  the Add Bookmark option of the Bookmarks menu to record a URL when you
  are visiting it.

Submission Directions

  The HBAP WWW Server is a service provided as a means of disseminating
  information on Ada. Submittals are accepted by e-mail in text form,
  HTML markup, or as references to other locations containing
  information related to Ada. For other formats, please send a proposal
  first and we'll work it out.

   Upload Directions

  There is no "upload" directory for security reasons. To submit a
  document please send an e-mail message which contains a description of
  the contents of the document and the document as an attachment. If you
  send the document in a compressed or translated form, please indicate
  how to uncompress. If your document is very large--say 1 MB--I'll tell
  you how to upload it through FTP.

  Send all correspondence to: [email protected]

   Description of Contents

  Please make sure that the nature of the document is clear (title,
  author, contact information, date).

   Copyright Restrictions

  If the document has been copyrighted for publication elsewhere,
  provide information from the copyright holder that permission is
  granted to publish the document in this form (and DO provide a
  copyright notice). If it hasn't been published elsewhere, put an
  explicit copyright statement on it to protect your intellectual
  property.

  THANK YOU!

Other Ada-Related WWW Servers

  After the creation of HBAP, a number of personal and institutional
  efforts have also created Ada-oriented WWW servers. Here is a
  sampling:

  ACM SIGAda
         URL http://www.acm.org/sigada/
         ACM SIGAda -- the ACM Special Interest Group on the Ada
         programming language -- has its own home page, where you can
         find the latest information about ACM SIGAda's activities.

         The SIGAda home page points to information on SIGAda, including
         the many different Working Groups within SIGAda. There you'll
         find info on topics such as bindings, software standards,
         reuse, performance issues, and Artificial Intelligance and Ada
         just to name a few. There is also information on the many local
         SIGAda organizations found world wide. Additionally, there are
         links from the SIGAda page to many Ada resources found around
         the internet.

  Ada Information Clearinghouse
         The AdaIC is sponsored by the US DoD through the AJPO. It has a
         mission, a server, and a newsletter, and it publishes many
         reports and reference documents (online and on paper).

  PAL
         URL http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/pal.html
         The Public Ada Library at WUArchive, USA.

  European mirror of PAL
         URL http://web.cnam.fr/Languages/Ada/PAL/
         Located at Conservatoire National des Arts et M�tiers, Paris
         (CNAM).

  Ada-Belgium
         URL http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/
         Ada-Belgium organizes an annual seminar, an annual Ada Tools
         Exhibition, small workshops, publishes 3 issues of its
         newsletter a year, and has two e-mail lists for the Ada
         community in Belgium. On demand, training seminars can be
         organized. They also manage an Ada archive (with material from
         the PAL, see below).

  SEI
         URL http://www.sei.cmu.edu/FrontDoor.html
         The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded
         research and development center operated since 1984 by Carnegie
         Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

         The SEI is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense through
         the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The SEI objective
         is to provide leadership in software engineering and in the
         transition of new software engineering technology into
         practice.

         (This site has a lot of material about Software Engineering in
         general, and some about Ada in particular.)


What Is WWW?

  The World Wide Web (WWW) is what Fortune Magazine ("The Internet And
  Your Business," March 7, 1994, pp. 86-96) called the "killer
  application" that will make the Internet indispensable to anyone in
  the 1990's just as the spreadsheet did for the PC in the 1980's.

  WWW is like a distributed hypermedia encyclopedia. It is a database
  and communications protocol, it is multimedia, distributed, and
  hypertext. Clicking on links takes the user from document to document,
  from site to site, world-wide. WWW was originally developed by
  researchers at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

  The basic concepts used in WWW are hypertext--text that is not
  constrained to be linear--and multimedia--information that is not
  constrained to be text. With hypertext, documents can contain links to
  other documents, or another reference within the same document. With
  multimedia, documents can contain objects that are not necessarily
  text--sounds, movies, and interactive sessions are all possible.

  Now everyone knows (or pretends to know) what the Internet and WWW
  are; indeed, as early as in 1994, the WWW attracted attention from
    * Business Week (Nov 14, 1994, pp. 80-88; March 28, 1994, pp. 170
      and 180),
    * Byte ("Data Highway," March 1994; "The Web Means Business",
      November 1994, pp. 26-27),
    * Scientific American ("Wire Pirates," March 1994),
    * New Media (November 1994),
    * PC Magazine (October 11, 1994),
    * Conde Nast Traveller (11/94, pp. 37-49, 58),
    * Money (November 1994, p. 125),
    * Unix Review (October 1994),
    * Advanced Systems ("Doing Business on the Internet", November 1994,
      pp. 50-55),
    * German Der Spiegel (March 1994), and
    * British PC Week (March 15, 1994).


  For more information, read the WWW FAQ, available in hypertext at
  http://www.boutell.com/faq/www_faq.html and in the FTP archive of
  news.answers: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq

Some WWW Browsers

  Commercial and free WWW browsers are available for all major platforms
  (Unix, Macintosh, Windows, DOS, VMS, VM, NeXTstep...). New versions
  become available at least twice a year (for each browser), and even
  new browsers regularly make their appearance.

  A list of browsers is available on the Web as
  http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html and used to be regarded
  as an authoritative list.

  Here is some quick reference information for a few free browsers:

  Mosaic (the catalyst of the WWW) is the name of an application which
  lets users navigate through the Internet and browse through the Web;
  this software --distributed free to anyone who requests it and
  available for Unix workstations, Macintosh systems, and MS Windows--
  is developed and maintained at NCSA, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The
  Mosaic binaries are FTP-able from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic (Unix
  and VMS), ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Mosaic and
  ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/PC/Mosaic

  Lynx is a full screen browser for vt100 terminals; precompiled
  binaries are available from ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx

  Cello is a client for PCs running Windows, available from
  ftp://fatty.law.cornell.edu/pub/LII/Cello

  W3 is an Emacs subsystem, available from
  ftp://moose.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3


    _________________________________________________________________

Copying this FAQ

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  This document is provided as is, without any warranty.


    _________________________________________________________________

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   Magnus Kempe -- [email protected]


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