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A Sharp (.NET)

Programming language port

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).

01Examples

Hello, Srisainet!

<syntax highlight lang="ada"> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; procedure Hello_Dotnet is begin

Put_Line(Item => "Hello, world!");

end Hello_Dotnet; </syntaxhighlight>

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