The COVID-19 pandemic surprisingly prompted a series of articles related to computer languages. The most prominent computer language reviewed was COBOL. There was also a series of "
second" generation articles that reviewed other computer languages. The one that caught my attention was the
Ada Computer Language.
I went ahead and installed it. Have not done anything with it other than successfully run the "
Hello World" program. Nevertheless, I thought it would be helpful to review how this program is installed. Overall, it is pretty straight forward.
I am running Linux Mint 19.3 and the Ada programming language is available through the Mint repository under "
Gnat" and "
Gnat-GPS".
I can't remember whether the "
first" Gnat option has to be installed from the repository first or not, prior to installing "
Gnat-8". "
Gnat-8" is the installed version.
The installation of "
Gnat-GPS" appeared, at first, to be successful; but subsequently it turned out that two plugins are not installed. Whether they are important or not is not known. However, with a bit of research these plugins were located and successfully installed.
The installation of the missing plugins required the installation of "
pip".
How To Install PIP to Manage Python Packages in Linux.
The first plugin was: "
pep8". Installed first from the Mint repository then with: "
sudo pip install --upgrade pep8"
The second plugin that failed to load is "
jedi". Resolved by "
pip install jedi".
ArchLinux appears to have a pretty good
Ada reference source.
Ran across this September 10, 2019 article:
Why Ada Is The Language You Want To Be Programming Your Systems With
Should anyone wish to use the Ada programming language, I hope that this post will prove useful.