Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language

This book presents the rationale behind the design and development of the programming language Ada.

J. Ichbiah (Author), J. Barnes (Author), R. Firth (Author), M. Woodger (Author)

9780521392679, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 April 1991

406 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.77 kg

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

This book presents the rationale behind the design and development of the programming language Ada. The materials 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.

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.

Subject Areas: Programming & scripting languages: general [UMX]