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SA1: introducing the best of ada

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SIGAda '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM international conference on SIGAda annual international conference

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This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge or experience with the Ada programming language.

Ada was originally designed in around 1980. Important goals included: to provide a portable and uniform language to replace a number of existing languages then in use; to capture the state of the art in language design; to recognize that programming was a serious engineering discipline; and to be highly reliable and encourage the development of long lived and maintainable programs.

However, Ada 83 (as the first version was known) was developed before the ideas of OOP matured and tasking was fully understood. Accordingly Ada was enhanced in 1995 to cover these topics and others. In this tutorial John will introduce the main themes of Ada and hopefully show why it is an excellent language for systems that need to be reliable and to be maintained.

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SA1: introducing the best of ada
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages

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SIGAda '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM international conference on SIGAda annual international conference

November 2007

116 pages

ISBN:9781595938763

DOI:10.1145/1315580

General Chair:
Alok Srivastava
Northrop Grumman Corporation
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Program Chair:
Leemon C. Baird
US Air Force Academy

ACM SIGAda Ada Letters Volume XXVII, Issue 3
SIGAda '07
December 2007
93 pages
ISSN:1094-3641
DOI:10.1145/1315607
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