Click here to go to the Card Catalog Taxonomy. Click here to go to the Card Catalog Index. Click here to go to the Title Page of this Website. However, Ada's arithmetic type facility does not readily handle the exact decimal model needed for financial computation, leaving a major impediment to a successful transition to Ada for Information Systems applications. The ADAR project addresses this shortcoming by providing a set of packages that define and implement decimal support in Ada 83.
Users can employ either or both of the approaches in their programs.
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