Questions about Ada, a programming language that made it's first appearance around 1980.
Questions tagged [ada]
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is Ada really gone?
Do people still use Ada -- (it was mostly used in the Defense Department)
Are all applications written in Ada "Legacy"?
Does Ada knowledge still sell
treecoder
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Why is overflow silently allowed in Ada?
Silent failure for such trivial code. How can they claim high integrity?
with ada.text_io;
use ada.text_io;
procedure overflow is
procedure p (i: positive) is
x: integer := integer'last;
begin
x := (x+i)/2;
put_line…
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Rendezvous in Ada
In a test I was asked:
What elements present in the general form of a rendezvous are not present in Ada language?
I was a bit stumbled as I thought Ada fully supported rendezvous. Now it seems it doesn't. Can anyone tell me what are those…
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What are some good books to use to learn ADA?
I was recently encouraged by a potential employer to go out and buy a book and begin learning ADA. I generally find that starting out with a good book, then supplementing that learning with continued research on-line with reference as needed to the…
Kenneth
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Custom types vs Conditions and Exceptions for parameter checking in Ada
The question: Is it considered better practice to use derived types/subtypes or to use conditions and exception-handling to restrict the acceptable inputs for a subprogram in Ada? I understand that in Ada2012 you can use contracts, but what about…
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How to create a 2D array at runtime in Ada?
In Ada programming, What is a best practice way to create a 2D array of a size that is specified by the user?
I'm teaching myself Ada for work (after many years of C programming), and I'm having difficulty understanding how to create an array of a…
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Source file shouldn't be more than 100 SLOC
I just started working on a baseline that is rooted in Ada. Many of the older Ada programmers insist that the source files shouldn't be more than 100 SLOC. I researched this online and I have not found any source to this statement. Is this a…
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Annexes in Ada95
I want to know the differences between normative and informative annexes in Ada 95.
I am just able to find a list of each of them but not the differences. What are the differences?
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