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
       Automatic Data Acquisitions
       

Ada

    (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>.  <Ada FAQs> (hypertext), <text only>.

   <http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/>,
   <ftp://ajpo.sei.cmu.edu/>,
   <ftp://stars.rosslyn.unisys.com/pub/ACE_8.0>.

   E-mail: .

   Usenet newsgroup: <news:comp.lang.ada>.

   <An Ada grammar> including a lex
   scanner and yacc parser is available.  E-mail:
   .

   <Another yacc grammar and parser for Ada by Herman Fischer>.

   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 -- U.S. County in Idaho
   Population (2000):    300904
   Housing Units (2000): 118516
   Land area (2000):     1054.990995 sq. miles (2732.414018 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    5.336939 sq. miles (13.822607 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1060.327934 sq. miles (2746.236625 sq. km)
   Located within:       Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
   Location:             43.560300 N, 116.280069 W
   Headwords:
    Ada
    Ada, ID
    Ada County
    Ada County, ID

Ada, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
   Population (2000):    5582
   Housing Units (2000): 1948
   Land area (2000):     1.871428 sq. miles (4.846975 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.871428 sq. miles (4.846975 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            00198
   Located within:       Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
   Location:             40.768883 N, 83.822298 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     45810
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Ada, OH
    Ada

Ada, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
   Population (2000):    15691
   Housing Units (2000): 7472
   Land area (2000):     15.701331 sq. miles (40.666259 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.071505 sq. miles (0.185198 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    15.772836 sq. miles (40.851457 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            00200
   Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
   Location:             34.763661 N, 96.668214 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     74820
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Ada, OK
    Ada

Ada, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
   Population (2000):    1657
   Housing Units (2000): 835
   Land area (2000):     1.342312 sq. miles (3.476572 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.342312 sq. miles (3.476572 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            00172
   Located within:       Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
   Location:             47.298701 N, 96.515796 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Ada, MN
    Ada