Ada 95 Rationale: The Language The Standard Libraries

✍ Scribed by John Barnes (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 456
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1247
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ada 95, the enhanced version of the Ada programming language, is now in place and has attracted much attention in the community since the International Standard ISO/IEC 8652:1995(E) for the language was approved in 1995. The Ada 95 Rationale comes in four parts. The introductory part is a general discussion of the scope and objectives of Ada 95 and its major technical features. The second part contains a more detailed step by step account of the core language. The third part consists of several annexes addressing the predefined environment and specialized application areas. Finally, the three appendices of the fourth part are devoted to the upward compatibility with Ada 83, a few changes since the drafts of the standard were made public, and a summary of requirements.

✦ Table of Contents

Evolution of Ada 95....Pages 1-7
Highlights of Ada 95....Pages 9-43
Overview of the Ada language....Pages 45-66
Introduction....Pages 67-73
Lexical elements....Pages 75-76
Types and expressions....Pages 77-104
Object oriented programming....Pages 105-149
Statements....Pages 151-151
Subprograms....Pages 153-158
Packages....Pages 159-171
Visibility rules....Pages 173-177
Tasking....Pages 179-212
Program structure and compilation issues....Pages 213-225
Exceptions....Pages 227-230
Generics....Pages 231-241
Representation issues....Pages 243-250

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters