Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language
Published on 4. April 1991
Book
Hardback
406 pages
978-0-521-39267-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"...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 ReviewsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
807 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-39267-9 (9780521392679)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
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.