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Introduction to the Ada Programming Language
A SHORT tutorial to an ENORMOUS Programming Language
The Ada programming language is used in avionics, railroad, aerospace and all sorts of mission- and safety-critical environments. This is not the everyday case for most programmers/developers. This book intends on introducing this general purpose programming language to a new audience, away from the embedded systems niche market where the language thrives. A special focus will be given to what I…
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Ada, as a general purpose programming language, has never quite picked up its pace. In fact, many programmers nowadays probably have never even heard about this programming language until reading this text. Several other books, authors, researchers, and so on and so forth, have questioned (and presented historical facts and ideas) why this seems to be the case. Several opinion papers have been written by the language's advocates who have defended the programming language with all their might. This isn't such a book.
This book intends to introduce newcomers (and some old returnees) to the current Ada programming language as a general purpose programming language, well suited for a wide range of tasks. The book is aimed at three types of people: 1) People that need to learn how to program in Ada, especially 2012, but can't find any well-rounded introduction to the programming language that addresses Ada 2012 features (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg); 2) Students that are being "coerced" into learning Ada in one of their CS courses; 3) people that want to start learning a full fledged, mature programming language with support for concurrent programming embedded into the design of the programming language.
A special focus is given to what I consider the 2 main advantages of Ada: its type system and its built-in concurrency.
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Eduardo Brito
BSc in Informatics Engineering from Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
MSc in Informatics from Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Enrolled in PhD.
Research interests in: Formal Methods, Program Verification, Concurrency.
Life interests: Budô.
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