* Re: Software Engineering and ADA
2011-10-03 7:06 Software Engineering and ADA SE
@ 2011-10-03 7:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-03 7:54 ` Martin
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From: Ludovic Brenta @ 2011-10-03 7:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
SE wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> I am doing a short course on software engineering. I need to do a 15
> minute talk (as part of the course) on why ADA is well suited to
> software engineering and describing software design.
>
> Can someone point me to some links where I can read stuff on this topic.
> I found books which describe the language itself. However, I am not able
> to find anything on why it's suited for Software Engineering & Design.
>
> I am reasonably good at C, C++ programming, design patterns etc. So I
> can read stuff which is technical. I just some place to start looking
> for stuff.
http://www.adaic.org/advantages/
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Ludovic Brenta.
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2011-10-03 7:06 Software Engineering and ADA SE
2011-10-03 7:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
@ 2011-10-03 7:54 ` Martin
2011-10-03 9:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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From: Martin @ 2011-10-03 7:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Oct 3, 8:06 am, SE <s...@se.com> wrote:
> I am doing a short course on software engineering. I need to do a 15
> minute talk (as part of the course) on why ADA is well suited to
> software engineering and describing software design.
>
> Can someone point me to some links where I can read stuff on this topic.
> I found books which describe the language itself. However, I am not able
> to find anything on why it's suited for Software Engineering & Design.
>
> I am reasonably good at C, C++ programming, design patterns etc. So I
> can read stuff which is technical. I just some place to start looking
> for stuff.
You could start by replacing all occurances of "ADA" with "Ada" - it's
name not an acronym! :-)
As well as Ludovic's link, you could try http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming#About_Ada
-- Martin
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2011-10-03 7:06 Software Engineering and ADA SE
2011-10-03 7:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-03 7:54 ` Martin
@ 2011-10-03 9:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-03 9:48 ` Sunny
2011-10-03 18:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
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From: Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) @ 2011-10-03 9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Le Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:06:18 +0200, SE <se@se.com> a écrit:
> Can someone point me to some links where I can read stuff on this topic.
> I found books which describe the language itself. However, I am not able
> to find anything on why it's suited for Software Engineering & Design.
In few words: Ada is all state of the art idioms inside.
For a quick start before more, you may introduce it with two points. 1)
Readability 2) As easy to learn as Pascal. After your talk, for some last
words, you may point that Ada is not the too much often depicted dusty
language, and is instead always ahead of most of others, and always
evolving (for the best, not for bloats).
If you want to prepare your speech some time in advance to fell better,
you may request for helps and comments on your text here.
Enjoy :-) And may your audience enjoy too…
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [Epigrams on
Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [Idem]
Java: Write once, Never revisit
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* Re: Software Engineering and ADA
2011-10-03 7:06 Software Engineering and ADA SE
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2011-10-03 9:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
@ 2011-10-03 9:48 ` Sunny
2011-10-03 18:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
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From: Sunny @ 2011-10-03 9:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Oct 3, 3:06 pm, SE <s...@se.com> wrote:
> I am doing a short course on software engineering. I need to do a 15
> minute talk (as part of the course) on why ADA is well suited to
> software engineering and describing software design.
>
> Can someone point me to some links where I can read stuff on this topic.
> I found books which describe the language itself. However, I am not able
> to find anything on why it's suited for Software Engineering & Design.
>
> I am reasonably good at C, C++ programming, design patterns etc. So I
> can read stuff which is technical. I just some place to start looking
> for stuff.
I have Ada for Soft Engineer 2nd Edition, PDF, do you need it?
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2011-10-03 9:48 ` Sunny
@ 2011-10-03 18:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
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From: Jeffrey Carter @ 2011-10-03 18:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 10/03/2011 12:06 AM, SE wrote:
>
> Can someone point me to some links where I can read stuff on this topic. I found
> books which describe the language itself. However, I am not able to find
> anything on why it's suited for Software Engineering & Design.
You can also look at the introduction to the ARM, which describes Ada's design
goals:
http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/html/RM-0-3.html
--
Jeff Carter
"My little plum, I am like Robin Hood. I take from
the rich, and I give to the poor. ... Us poor."
Poppy
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