A Review of Ada Tasking (Record no. 35307)
[ view plain ]
| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 03636nam a22005055i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9783540472414 |
| -- | 978-3-540-47241-4 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 005.13 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A Review of Ada Tasking |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | edited by Alan Burns, Andrew M. Lister, Andrew J. Wellings. |
| 260 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Berlin, Heidelberg : |
| Name of publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg, |
| Year of publication | 1987. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | X, 146 p. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Lecture Notes in Computer Science, |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1 Introduction -- 2 The Ada Tasking model -- 3 Formal aspects -- 4 Concurrent programming -- 5 Embedded systems -- 6 Distributed systems -- 7 Implementation issues -- 8 Language changes and extensions -- 9 Conclusion. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Ada* is unquestionably one of the most significant programming languages to emerge in the last decade. The manner of its inception and support by the US Department of Defense (DoD) ensures that it will be used extensively for the indefinite future in programming large and complex systems. The growing availability of compilers means that many organisations are already committed to using the language for sizable and significant applications. As a perhaps inevitable result of its design goals, Ada is a "large" language. It has Pascal-like control and type constructs; a mechanism for exception handling; a package structure for information hiding, decomposition and separate compilation; facilities for low-level programming; and a tasking model of concurrency. It is perhaps this last area that has generated most debate, criticism and disagreement. The purpose of this book is to review the tasking model in the light of the extensive analysis and comment which has appeared in the literature. The review is necessarily wide-ranging, including discussion of - Ada as a general purpose concurrent programming language, - Ada as a language for embedded and distributed systems, - implementation issues, with particular reference to distributed systems, - formal semantics, specification and verification, - proposed language modifications. By consolidating this discussion within the confines of a single review, potential users of the tasking facility are enabled to familiarise themselves with all the factors which may impinge upon the performance, reliability and correctness of their software. The book also provides a focus for any debate on modifications to the Ada language, or developments from it. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Computer science. |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Computer Science. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Burns, Alan. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lister, Andrew M. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wellings, Andrew J. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18008-7 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-BOOKS |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Berlin, Heidelberg : |
| -- | Springer Berlin Heidelberg, |
| -- | 1987. |
| 336 ## - | |
| -- | text |
| -- | txt |
| -- | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - | |
| -- | computer |
| -- | c |
| -- | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
| -- | cr |
| -- | rdacarrier |
| 347 ## - | |
| -- | text file |
| -- | |
| -- | rda |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| -- | 0302-9743 ; |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Accession Number | Uniform Resource Identifier | Koha item type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IMSc Library | EBK6013 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18008-7 | E-BOOKS |