Ada Distilled. An Introduction to Ada Programming

1. WHAT IS ADA DISTILLED ................................................................................................................ 4

2. SUMMARY OF LANGUAGE................................................................................................................ 5

3. TYPES AND THE TYPE MODEL ...................................................................................................... 16

4. CONTROL STRUCTURES FOR ALGORITHMS............................................................................ 26

5. ACCESS TYPES (POINTERS) ............................................................................................................ 33

6. SUBPROGRAMS................................................................................................................................... 40

7. PACKAGE DESIGN.............................................................................................................................. 47

8. CHILD LIBRARY UNITS .................................................................................................................... 52

9. OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING WITH PACKAGES....................................................... 57

10. USING STANDARD LIBRARIES AND ANNEXES ....................................................................... 64

11. EXCEPTION MANAGEMENT........................................................................................................ 71

12. GENERIC COMPONENTS................................................................................................................ 74

13. NEW NAMES FROM OLD ONES .................................................................................................... 82

14. CONCURRENCY WITH TASKING................................................................................................. 87

A. ANNEXES, APPENDICES AND STANDARD LIBRARIES.......................................................... 92

ANNEX L PRAGMAS - LANGUAGE-DEFINED COMPILER DIRECTIVES............................... 104

WINDOWS 95/98/NT/XP/ME/2000 PROGRAMMING ...................................................................... 105

C. BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................................................................... 107