Re: Ada Coding Rules

[cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uvaarpa!soft ware.org!smithd@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Doug Smith)]

In article <1993Feb18.114045.11990@hsacsd.signaal.nl> jacobs@hsacsd.signaal.nl 
writes:
> 
> 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).
> [text deleted]

The trailing text is extracted from a post by the Ada Information Clearinghouse
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The postscript files are available.  The guidelines do cover the topics
mentioned above.  However, some of the guidelines leave choices to the
project or organization, such as how many spaces to use per indentation
level.  The guideline says to use a consistant indentation scheme and
goes further to make recommendations, providing the example indentation
scheme used in the document.

Several style guides we were aware of were checked to extract any `gems'
of wisdom, and the guidelines went through a public review, then a
`distinguished reviewers' review cycle.

> The document, "Ada Quality and Style: Guidelines for Professional
> Programmers, Version 2.01.01, December 1992", developed by Software
> Productivity Consortium, is available in ASCII format on the AJPO
> host.  This is the Ada Joint Program Office's "suggested Ada Style
> Guide for use in DoD programs".  You are encouraged to submit comments
> to adastyle@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu.
> 
> Ada Quality and Style is available through anonymous FTP.
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> 
> The ASCII version is available as style-t.hlp.
> 
> The postscript files will be uploaded to the AJPO host as soon as they are
> available.
> 
> The previous version of Ada Quality and Style, V2.00.02, 1991, has been
> moved to /public/adastyle/V2.00.  This version will be removed when both
> ASCII and postscript files are available for V2.01.01, 1992.
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