This book is aimed at readers with a good knowledge of a high-level sequential programming language such as C or Pascal, or the sequential part of Ada. The book explains Ada's concurrent programming facilities and shows how to use them. It also discusses concurrent programming facilities in other languages, some issues specific to concurrent programming and the limitations of concurrent programming facilities in Ada. The following subjects comprise the main body of the book: tasking facilities; task types; exceptions and tasking; device drivers; real-time programming; issues specific to concurrent programming; examples of concurrent programming.
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