Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language

by J. Ichbiah, J. Barnes, R. Firth, M. Woodger

Overview

The book presents the rationale behind the design and development of the programming language Ada. The material, incorporating corrections to its original printing by the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO), will be essential reading for all those currently using the language as well as those considering its adoption.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521392679
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/04/1991
Series:	The Ada Companion Series
Edition description:	Corr. ed
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.06(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and preface; 2. Lexical and textual structure; 3. Classical programming; 4. Types; 5. Numeric types; 6. Access types; 7. Derived types; 8. Subprograms; 9. Packages; 10. Separate compilation and libraries; 11. General program structure - visibility and overloading; 12. Generic units; 13. Tasking ;14. Exception handling; 15. Representation classes and machine dependences; 16. Input-output; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...with its lucid, systematic, and well-structured description of Ada written by its inventors, is especially useful to those interested in learning about the what and why of Ada." Choice

"...invaluable and irreplaceable for scholars and historians of the language." J. Moore, Computing Reviews

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