Rationale for the design of the Ada programming language / J. Ichbiah ... [et al.].

1. Introduction and preface
Goals
Structure
Acknowledgements

2. Lexical and textual structure
Lexical structure
Textual structure

3. Classical programming
Simple declarations : Variables and constants
Declarative parts-linear reading
Multiple declarations

4. Types
Introduction
The concept of type
Type equivalence
Constraints and subtypes

5. Numeric types
Introduction
Floating point: The problems
Fixed point: The problems

6. Access types
Introduction
Overview of the issues
Conceptual aspects


7. Derived types
Introduction
Informal introduction to derived types
Simple strong typing


8. Subprograms
Subprogram declarations and subprogram bodies
Parameter modes
Efficiency issues of parameter passing mechanisms


9. Packages
Motivation
Informal introduction to packages
Named collections of entities

10. Separate compilation and libraries
11. General program structure - visibility and overloading
12. Generic units
13. Tasking ;14. Exception handling
15. Representation classes and machine dependences
16. Input-output
Bibliography
Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-389) and index.