Whirlwind Tour of Ada

Part 1

Brief History, Design Goals, and Applications

Hello World, Use, Text_IO, Compile and Run



Ada History



Ada Design Goals



Four Versions



Procedural (and Ada) Goals and Application Areas



Hello World



Edit, Compile, and Run - environments



Comments



Context Clause



Program Structure



Compare and Contrast with Java



Ada.Text_IO: put_line and other I/O routines



Rules for Identifiers



Compilation and Execution: Ada vs Java



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