From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,603ffd4a878bd6cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lucretia Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Cohen: "Ada As A Second Language" - 05 Update? Date: 4 May 2007 08:01:59 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1178290919.801968.176460@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <1177680878.226297.151180@s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1178149620.087751.309640@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.81.180 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1178290920 10715 127.0.0.1 (4 May 2007 15:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 15:02:00 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.10 (X11; Linux i686; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.56.81.180; posting-account=G-J9fgwAAADgpzBiEyy5tO4f8MX5fbpw Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15524 Date: 2007-05-04T08:01:59-07:00 List-Id: On May 4, 3:33 am, wrote: > "Lucretia" wrote in message > > news:1178149620.087751.309640@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...> On Apr 27, = 2:34 pm, PnkFlyd wrote: > > > I sent an email to Norman Cohen a while back about an update to the > > book, here's his reply: > > 1) Cohen's book is not really "out-of-date." While it does not > cover some of the new features of the latest version of Ada, > it does cover the features of the largest revision of the language, > to date. Everything in the Cohen book will still work. I never said it was out of date, I said it was out of print. Big difference! Also, with it being out of print, the cost of the book is hugely inflated, over here it's at least =A370, not necessarily for a new copy! > 2) John Barnes has written a book on Ada 2005. That book is quite > comprehensive. It is published by Addison-Wesley, and anything > you need to update your knowledge of Ada is in that book. The > criticism of Barnes' book has sometimes been that the examples > are not as fully coded as in the Cohen book. Dr. Barnes has > addressed that criticism and you will find some fully coded examples. The thing I've heard about the Cohen book is that is supposedly covers in detail how a runtime could be written for an Ada compiler. I doubt that this can be said about the Barnes book. Luke.