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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Writing Book, Need Ada Ammunition
Date: 1999/07/22
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In article <7n7rq3$h1g$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) writes:

> There exists at the moment not a single book that answers these
> questions. Existing Linux/Unix books answer them only for C
> programmers, and existing Ada books say that this is an operating
> system dependent functionality, please consult the vendor documentation
> (which does not exist yet for Ada on Linux at this level).

That is really a crucial point.  If I want to use an operating system
from Ada, it is really annoying to have all the examples and discussion
be in C.

Larry Kilgallen