Re: Re: Ada style guide wanted

Re: Re: Ada style guide wanted

[tancill]

I am aware of two "Ada* style guides", both of which I've found
found to be quite useful.

Ada* Style Manual
Copyright 1983
Intellimac, Inc.
6001 Montrose Road
Rockville, Maryland 20852

It's more like a couple of sheets of paper, but it covers the
importance of consistent style across a project team.  Topics
are 1. Identifiers, 2. Identation and aliignment, 3. Comments
4. Capitalization, 5. Highlighting, 6. Spacing, 7. Global
variables, and 8. Use clauses.  The second edition includes
revisions based on comments from readers and users of the
first edition.  Please drop me a note if you find there is a 
third edition by now. 
Soon you'll be coding identifiers like:

  Console_Input_Vector_To_Terminal_Driver_P{ackage

The other guide is

Studies in Ada Style
Second Edition, Jan. 1983
Peter Hibbard, Andy Hisgen, Jonathan Rosenberg, Mary Shaw, Mark Sherman
Dept. of CS, CMU, Schenley Park, Pittsburg PA 15213

Copyright 1983 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

This is a meater guide which discusses the impact of abstraction concerns
on modern languages and studies example Ada* programs.

I believe one can call Intellimac directly for their guide, but I
can't remeber for the life of me how I obtain the second one by
the folks at CMU.

Hope that helps,                      jeff

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*Ada is, of course, a registered trademark of the U. S. Gov't, AJPO