#   1 The history of Ada
# 2 Sample programs
# 3 Lexical conventions, contents
# 4 Basics types of Ada, contents
# 5 Control Structures, contents
# 6 Arrays, contents
# 7 Records, contents
# 8 Subprograms contents
# 9 Packages, contents
# 10 Generics, contents
# 11 Exceptions, contents
# 12 Files, contents
# 13 Access types, contents
# 14 Object Oriented features of Ada
# 15 Concurrency support, contents
# 16 Language interfaces, contents
# 17 Idioms, contents
# 18 Designing Ada programs, contents

SHORT CONTENTS
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Numeric Considerations
Chapter 3 : IO Utilities
Chapter 4 : Programming isn't software engineering
Chapter 5 : Testing software components and programs
Chapter 6 : Conclusion
Chapter 7 : Epilog

Table of Contents

1 WHAT IS ADA DISTILLED? 
2 SUMMARY OF LANGUAGE
3 TYPES AND THE TYPE MODEL 
4 CONTROL STRUCTURES FOR ALGORITHMS
5 ACCESS TYPES (POINTERS) 
6 SUBPROGRAMS
7 PACKAGE DESI
8 CHILD LIBRARY UNITS 
9 OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING WITH PACKAGES
10 USING STANDARD LIBRARIES AND ANNEXES 
11 EXCEPTION MANAGEMENT
12 GENERIC COMPONENTS
13 NEW NAMES FROM OLD ONES 
14 CONCURRENCY WITH TASKING

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