Ada Programming/Ada 80

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Ada 80 was a preliminary version of the Ada programming language. The Military Standard reference manual was approved on December 10, 1980 (Ada Lovelace's birthday), and given the number MIL-STD-1815 in honor of Ada Lovelace's birth year.

The Ada 83 standard, MIL-STD-1815A, was later derived from Ada 80.

Ada 80 is just interesting from a historic point of view, there is no code that must conform with this standard.

Summary of features

Pragmas

pragma Controlled
pragma Include (not in Ada 83)
pragma Inline
pragma Interface
pragma List
pragma Memory_Size
pragma Optimize
pragma Pack
pragma Priority
pragma Storage_Unit
pragma Suppress
pragma System_Name (named System in Ada 83)

The following pragmas were not defined in Ada 80, but were later added in Ada 83:

pragma Elaborate (Ada 83 only)
pragma Page (Ada 83 only)
pragma Shared (Ada 83 only)

Attributes

The following attributes were later added to Ada 83:

Aft (Ada 83 only)
Callable (Ada 83 only)
Fore (Ada 83 only)
Safe_Emax (Ada 83 only)
Safe_Large (Ada 83 only)
Safe_Small (Ada 83 only)
Width (Ada 83 only)

References

DoD (1980). The Programming Language Ada Reference Manual — Proposed Standard Document United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2008-06-06. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

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