In this case we want the Ada.Text_IO package, as it contains the standard output routines like Put_Line. Note that since Ada is case-insensitive, we can type all of those names in lower-case as well.

Within Ada an advocated approach has been to use protected objects and barriers within entries, which provides language-level synchronization between tasks.

Ada 2012, an upgrade to language due later this year, will feature contract capabilities, multicore programming accommodations, iterators, and quantified expressions, said Ed Schonberg, vice ...