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=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,499977b90b42ac01,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: ezkcdude Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada book recommendation from a newbie Date: 31 May 2007 05:07:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1180613275.802484.203530@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.136.146.210 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1180613282 19205 127.0.0.1 (31 May 2007 12:08:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:08:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.136.146.210; posting-account=UbN39Q0AAADjt_3dTnzY1z4Qc9xnXw4K Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15989 Date: 2007-05-31T05:07:55-07:00 List-Id: I'm not asking for a recommendation. Rather, I just wanted to say that I started reading the Ben-Ari book "Ada for Software Engineers" (ASE), and I really like it. I had been reading Barnes' Ada 95 book, while informative, it wasn't really that fun to read. For whatever reason, Ben-Ari has a really nice writing style, which is all the more interesting given he is Israeli (AFAIK). I say this having been raised by my father, who also happens to be Israeli. Anyway, that aside, I'd highly recommend ASE for experienced programmers who want to dive in to Ada to see what it's all about. You have nothing to lose, literally. The book is available for free online in pdf format. I also took a look at one of his other books, "Understanding Programming Languages", and that one looks good, too. Have any of you read the Ben- Ari books? I'm especially interested to hear opinions about his latest, "Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming" (2006).