Rationale for the Design of the ADA Programming Language

ISBN-13: 9780521392679 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 406 str.

Jean D. Ichbiah; J. G. P. Barnes

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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.