An Introduction to ADA

Langue : anglais

Edité par Ellis Horwood Limited, 1984

0853128049 / 9780853128045

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An Introduction to ADA (1984) by Stephen John Young Ellis Horwood Limited ISBN: 0853128049 Condition: Good (as sold by Crappy Old Books) Welcome to 1984: the year of big hair, bigger shoulder pads, and the small matter of computer systems that really ought not to crash because they may be controlling aircraft, missiles, or something equally calming. Enter Ada ?the programming language designed with the soothing premise that if you?re going to tell a machine what to do, you should do it properly, explicitly, and with the kind of discipline normally reserved for nuclear submarines. An Introduction to ADA is your gateway into this famously serious language, named after Ada Lovelace, and built for the sort of software where ?it mostly works? is not an acceptable outcome. Stephen John Young explains Ada with the sober clarity of someone who knows that somewhere, a compiler is judging you. If you?ve grown up in the world of ?move fast and break things,? Ada reads like a polite but firm intervention. It insists on structure. It insists on types. It insists you mean what you say. In other words, it?s the language equivalent of a brisk walk, a tidy desk, and a strongly worded memo. Expect proper introductions to: Packages (because code should be organised like a filing cabinet) Strong typing (because ?close enough? is how disasters happen) Tasking and concurrency (because real systems do several terrifying things at once) Exceptions (because even the most disciplined software must occasionally acknowledge reality) The joy here is that you?re reading a book from the era when Ada still felt like the future?when the dream was that better engineering could fix the chaos of software. It?s charmingly earnest: a textbook that genuinely believes you can improve civilisation with good syntax. Condition-wise, this copy is in good shape?clean, sound, and ready to instruct you without falling to pieces. Exactly as an Ada book should be. No floppiness, no existential despair, no rebellious loose pages. Just solid academic seriousness with a faint whiff of Cold War competence. Perfect for: Programmers curious about ?the language for real systems? Retro-computing collectors with a taste for structure Anyone who enjoys the phrase ?compile-time safety? said with reverence People who suspect modern software could use a little more? discipline It?s a wonderfully ironic artefact: a book about a language designed to prevent catastrophe, now living a quiet second life on a shelf, waiting to be rediscovered by someone who wants to know what programming looked like when it wore a tie and carried a clipboard. Crappy Old Books proudly offers this slice of orderly, rigorous computing history?because sometimes the most rebellious thing you can do is write code that actually behaves.…

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Titre
An Introduction to ADA
Auteur
Stephen John Young
Éditeur
Ellis Horwood Limited
Année de publication
1984
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0853128049
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780853128045
Édition
2ème Édition

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