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
J. Barnes
R. Firth
M. Woodger
April 1991
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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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April 1991Hardback
9780521392679
406 pages
229 × 152 × 27 mm
0.77kg
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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.
