Tutorials for Ada

ABSTRACT

Ada is a modern high order programming language that has been developed by the U.S. Department of Defense for use in embedded computer applications. Such applications are typically large, volatile and long-lived. Facilities for such features as real-time and parallel processing, fail-soft execution, exception handling and the control of a wide variety of peripheral devices have been included in the language design. These features broaden the possible applications of Ada to such areas as process control, systems programming, scientific calculation, and commercial data processing. It is anticipated that Ada will be quickly adopted by DoD contractors and that it may also become the most popular computer language in general use because of its unique features and capabilities.

References

1. 1.Glass, Robert L., "Real-Time: 'The Lost World' of Software Debugging and Testing," CACM 23, 5, 264, May 1980.
2. 2.Reference Manual and Rationale for Ada, SIGPLAN Notices, 14, 6, Parts A and B, June 1979.
3. 3.Wegner, Peter, "Programming with Ada: An Introduction by Means of Graduated Examples," Prentice-Hall Inc. 1980.

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