A# is a port of the Ada programming language to the Microsoft .NET platform. A# is freely distributed by the Department of Computer Science at the United States Air Force Academy as a service to the Ada community under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
AdaCore took over this development in 2007, and announced "GNAT for .NET", which is a fully supported .NET product with all of the features of A# and more. As of 2021, A# has fallen dramatically in popularity and is considered by some to be a dead language (there are no known users or implementations).[unreliable source?]
Examples
Hello, world!
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; procedure Hello_Dotnet is begin Put_Line(Item => “Hello, world!”); end Hello_Dotnet;External links
- A# for .NET
- Ada Sharp .NET Archived 2008-10-16 at the Wayback Machine Programming environment
References
Cited by Martin Carlisle (USAFA) https://asharp.martincarlisle.com/ and see also http://www.adacore.com/2007/09/10/adacore-first-to-bring-true-net-integration-to-ada/ Archived 2007-10-28 at the Wayback Machine https://asharp.martincarlisle.com/ ↩
Developer, Website (2021-03-10). "The Mysterious Existence of A#". Medium. Retrieved 2021-06-22. https://seattlewebsitedevelopers.medium.com/the-mysterious-existence-of-a-325d870ee6a4 ↩
"A#: Multilanguage Programming with Ada in .NET". Retrieved July 1, 2023. http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2003/SIGAda2003-CDROM/SIGAda2003-Tutorials/Carlisle-ASharp.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwje_ae47u3_AhWcJDQIHWjBC2wQFnoECAoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3UUxN6L6w7t0ErTGFzK2mT ↩