Ada Style Guides

[wheeler@IDA.ORG (David Wheeler)]

I'm trying to help a large project adopt or adapt a good Ada style
guide.  I'm currently comparing some existing style guides but I'd like
some feedback from the Ada-community-at-large.

One style guide that has been recommended a number of times is the
Software Productivity Consortium's book ``Ada Quality and Style:
Guidelines for Professional Programmers''.  According to the March 1991
Ada-IC newsletter the AJPO is even ``investigating the possibility of
purchasing the data rights to the SPC guide..  the guide could then be
issued as a military handbook.''


I have the following questions:

1. Who has adopted the SPC style guide?

2. What experiences have you/they had with the SPC guide?  Is it useful?
   Do you/they like it?

3. Are there other style guides I should look at?  I already know about
   the old AJPO style guide (from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) and
   the STGT style guide.  If so, can you answer questions 1 & 2 for
   that guide?

4. Is there anything else I should know about Ada style guides?


--- David A. Wheeler
    wheeler@ida.org