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This article is a tour of the new contract features in Ada 2012.

Describes how Ada features, including new Ada 2012 features, make it possible to describe more of the design of a system than other languages. By describing the design in safe, high-level features, it is easier to verify that the translation of the design to code has been carried out accurately, and more of this verification can be automated.

The industrialization age of programming by contract is opening a new era in software development. Just as development techniques went from assembly to structured languages and from structured languages to object orientation, contract-based programming is providing one more abstraction to software design.

This article on Embedded.Com explores the contract facilities of Ada 2012.

A brief discussion of the new features in Ada 2012, with an emphasis on the contract features.

Both C++ and Ada have been undergoing major revisions, resulting in the almost synchronized releases of C++ 11 and Ada 2012. This article describes the most notable additions to the two languages, and show how they relate one to the other.

This article describes some areas where Ada’s built-in language features are superior to what’s available in C and C++.