Re: Ada Coding Rules

[news.udel.edu!darwin.sura.net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@louie.udel.edu (Mich ael Feldman)]

In article <1993Feb18.114045.11990@hsacsd.signaal.nl> jacobs@hsacsd.signaal.nl 
writes:
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>We are looking to literature and/or tools for Ada Coding Rules.
>
>These rules should cover (at least) the following topics like:
>  - the layout of the source code files (headers, indentation, etc.)
>  - naming conventions (for all kind of identifiers)
>  - the use of Ada (avoidance of complex constructions, side-effects).
>
You can ftp the Ada Quality and Style Guide from ajpo.sei.cmu.edu.
This useful set of recommendations was developed by the Software
Productivity Consortium and endorsed as a set of _recommendations_
by AJPO. It's no panacea (what is?), but it's a useful document.
I was a reviewer of the document, so I know it reasonably well.

Mike Feldman
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