Programming with Ada

Contents:

• Overview
• Feature Overview
• The Big Five Structural Elements
• Note on Terminology
• Packages, the Building Blocks of Ada
  • Types and Ada, The Elephant in the Room
  • Subprograms (functions and procedures)
  • Packages
  • The Core Tenet of Ada
• Advanced Techniques
  • RAII
  • Timing out on a Blocking Operation
  • Waiting for all Tasks to Complete
• Being More Terse
  • Expression Functions
  • Don’t repeat parameter types
  • Locally use packages
  • Abbreviate conversions functions
  • Use default parameters
  • Rename functions with default parameters
  • Locally define helper functions
  • Use package renames within package body
  • Use a package at file scope
  • Provide abstraction without introducing more code
  • Rename complicated expressions
• Comparing Ada to Other Languages
  • Names used in Examples
• Terminology
• Clearing the Air
  • Ada is not a dead language
  • Ada can be used for free
  • Ada code does not have to be GPL
  • AdaCore does not “own” Ada
  • Ada runs on more than embedded systems
• About
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend… in Ada
  • Project Layout
  • main.adb : Main Function
  • Expression functions help knock down verboseness
  • Semantic for types (“derived types”) in Ada
  • Ada lacks perfect forwarding
  • One line, 30% of runtime CPU
• Summary after Four Months with Ada
  • Why?
  • Resources
  • Projects
  • Ecosystem
  • Community
  • AdaCore and Ada Modernization
  • A Free-Function Focused C++, or a Strongly Typed C
  • SPARK
  • Focus on Intent
  • Low Level Control
  • Vocabulary
  • Verboseness
  • Was it worth it?

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page