Re: Ada Programming now a featuresd book

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 08:38 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ada Programming is now a Ada featured book on Wikibooks. The Ada book is 
> the ony book on programming languages which reached that state :-).
> 
> Now, anybody here with marketing experience to update our advertising 
> template:
> 
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Featured_Books/Book2

And if I may, if there is  anyone who remembers what were and
what are the outstanding qualities of having "package" in a
language the way Ada has them? 
It should be a most valuable addition to the book to have the
two remaining stubs in the packages page replaced with a few
suitable paragraphs.
  Any hints, however tentative, pasted here can be worked into
the pages, in case you don't want to get acquainted with yet
another markup language (Wiki language in this case).

Ichbiah mentions the importance of packages in his 1984 interview,
 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/358274.358278
Dewar speaks about them during his MIT lecture,
 http://www.adacore.com/home/ada_answers/lectures

The wikibook page is
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Packages