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Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language

Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language

Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language

J. Ichbiah
J. Barnes
R. Firth
M. Woodger
April 1991
Hardback
9780521392679
$182.00
USD
Hardback

    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.

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    "...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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    Product details

    April 1991
    Hardback
    9780521392679
    406 pages
    229 × 152 × 27 mm
    0.77kg
    Available

    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.
      Authors
    • J. Ichbiah
    • J. Barnes
    • R. Firth
    • M. Woodger