Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language
by Ichbiah, Barnes, Firth, and Woodger
ISBN 0-9615336-5-X
1986
390 pages, Paperback
$39.95 (US Dollars)

 Summary    Contents  

This book is a unique document; this is the first time a complete rationale for the design of a major language has been given. The Ada Rationale is a book that will be invaluable to all students of programming language design, compiler writers and for professionals, especially Ada professionals.

Chapters:

• Introduction and Preface
• Lexical and Textual Structure
• Classical Programming
• Types
• Numeric Types
• Access Types
• Derived Types
• Subprograms
• Packages
• Separate Compilation and Libraries
• Visibility and Overloading
• Generic Units
• Tasking
• Exception Handling
• Representation Clauses and Machine Dependencies
• Input-Output
• Bibliography
• Index