From: dd@sei.cmu.edu (Dennis Doubleday)
Subject: Re: Ada text for CS2 course
Date: 12 Apr 91 17:23:54 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24000@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: spray@convex.com's message of 12 Apr 91 14:26:27 GMT
spray@convex.com (Rob Spray) writes:
larryc@puente.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll) writes:
>>I suggest Norman Cohen's _Ada as a Second Languange_ (despite the title's
>>presumption of prior experience). ...
>
>If the title was Ada as a First Language, what language would
>the book be written in? The title is not "Ada as a Second
>Programming Language".
From the preface: "The book is entitled "Ada as a Second Language"
because it is an introduction to the Ada programming language, but not
an introduction to programming. We assume the reader is familiar with
certain fundamental programming notions...The first language can be
any statement-oriented high-level language. However, we pay
particular attention to FORTRAN, PL/I, and Pascal."
So he really DOES mean a second *programming* language.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1991-04-04 1:10 Ada text for CS2 course Esmail Bonakdarian
1991-04-05 14:30 ` David Eichmann
1991-04-05 17:51 ` Graphical User Interfaces in Ada David Erickson
1991-04-05 18:58 ` Ada text for CS2 course jncs
1991-04-11 23:14 ` Larry Carroll
1991-04-12 14:26 ` Rob Spray
1991-04-12 17:23 ` Dennis Doubleday [this message]
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