ada project

ada project

[Aba A�over]

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Greetings! I am a third year computer science 
student in De La Salle
University, Philippines. We
> are currently taking up a course called THEOPRO 
which stands for Theory of
Programming Languages.
> As a requirement for the course, we were tasked 
to learn a programming
language on our own and
> make a software project using that language. My 
partner and I were
assigned the language Ada. I
> came across your site while doing research on 
the language. Our professor
told us that we have to
> make a software project that would be able to 
show the powers of the Ada
language compared to the
> other programming languages. Can you please 
give me some ideas on what
types of software project
> we can do in order to show this? Thank you very 
much.
>
> Sincerely,
> Valerie Jean T. A�over


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Re: ada project

[Bobby D. Bryant]

In article <mailman.1001216841.11614.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Aba
A�over" <aba_a@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Our professor told us that we have to
> make a software project that would be able to
> show the powers of the Ada
> language compared to the
> other programming languages. Can you please
> give me some ideas on what
> types of software project
> we can do in order to show this?

Show off the built-in support for distributed computing and
multitasking.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas

Re: ada project

[Colin Paul Gloster]

In article news:9okttn$o26$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu , Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
"Show off the built-in support for distributed computing and
multitasking."

But if you decide to do so, beware of undetailed exceptions Ada provides
for concurrency.

Re: ada project

[Ted Dennison]

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In article <9okttn$o26$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, Bobby D. Bryant says...
>
>In article <mailman.1001216841.11614.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Aba
>A�over" <aba_a@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Our professor told us that we have to
>> make a software project that would be able to
>> show the powers of the Ada
>> language compared to the
>> other programming languages. Can you please
>> give me some ideas on what
>> types of software project
>> we can do in order to show this?
>
>Show off the built-in support for distributed computing and
>multitasking.

I'd second that. If you want to show off Ada's capabilities, you'll need to pick
a tasking or distributed example. If you pick tasking, pretty much any compiler
will do. But if you want to do a distributed example, right now only Gnat (the
GNU Ada compiler) supports it properly.

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Re: ada project

[Marin David Condic]

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Tasking is one of the unique features of Ada & a very powerful one at that.
This would be a good choice for a project to illustrate the power of Ada.
(Especially if you have a compiler and target machine that support multiple
processors!)

Without knowing how large or complex a program you must come up with, it is
hard to suggest an interesting parallel-programming project. A simple one
might be to create tasks for sorting a deck of cards. The main program
divides the deck of cards into the four suits (hearts, diamonds, spades,
clubs) and then you have four tasks that sort each suit into numerical
order. At the end, they rendesvous to merge the results. Its a small
problem, but one that at least illustrates the possibilities of how things
can be done in parallel.

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"Aba A�over" <aba_a@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1001216841.11614.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> Greetings! I am a third year computer science
> student in De La Salle
> University, Philippines. We
> > are currently taking up a course called THEOPRO
> which stands for Theory of
> Programming Languages.
> > As a requirement for the course, we were tasked
> to learn a programming
> language on our own and
> > make a software project using that language. My
> partner and I were
> assigned the language Ada. I
> > came across your site while doing research on
> the language. Our professor
> told us that we have to
> > make a software project that would be able to
> show the powers of the Ada
> language compared to the
> > other programming languages. Can you please
> give me some ideas on what
> types of software project
> > we can do in order to show this? Thank you very
> much.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Valerie Jean T. A�over
>
>
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Re: ada project

[Ehud Lamm]

Marin David Condic <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
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> Without knowing how large or complex a program you must come up with, it
is
> hard to suggest an interesting parallel-programming project.


If you just want to show how tasking can influence program desing, I'd go
for an example of active objects, like a self-sorting array ADT.
These are interesting in that they change the object relationships in
programs, and can thus help manage complex interactions.

Ehud Lamm

Re: ada project

[Ted Dennison]

In article <9oneph$8jq$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>
>Tasking is one of the unique features of Ada & a very powerful one at that.
>This would be a good choice for a project to illustrate the power of Ada.
>(Especially if you have a compiler and target machine that support multiple
>processors!)
>
>Without knowing how large or complex a program you must come up with, it is
>hard to suggest an interesting parallel-programming project. A simple one
>might be to create tasks for sorting a deck of cards. The main program

I had an OS class where we built a mini-OS (on top of the real one, of course),
using tasks. We used Concurrent-C for it, but I always thought Ada would have
been a much better choice.

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Re: ada project

[Marin David Condic]

Lots of interesting projects are possible but it does depend on just how
much you want to bite off and chew. I recall back in the olden days when I
was in college, I had an OS class where we were given a
pseudo-machine-language and the job was to build an interpreter for it and
use it as the basis of a mini-OS. I could see something similar taking
advantage of tasks - but you're talking significantly more work than some
minor, illustrative program that satisfies the prof that you've gained a
grasp of some unique and interesting language feature.

But there are always chronic over-achievers out there who might appreciate
the challenge. :-)

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> I had an OS class where we built a mini-OS (on top of the real one, of
course),
> using tasks. We used Concurrent-C for it, but I always thought Ada would
have
> been a much better choice.
>