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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,30992acb85024780 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Questions on new John McCormick book Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 17:14:14 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2e5350b2-6de0-41d8-b780-c84d90ee4706@t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <8086b3d6-b751-4abb-97d4-dd2f7e29aa1d@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <2011020718192896233-martynatemconukdotcom@news-europe.giganews.com> <0bcd152b-94da-4edf-bdec-86ca6c764ec7@q2g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <2011020919230268779-martynatemconukdotcom@news-europe.giganews.com> <98aaaef9-65b3-4738-afcb-2a39c53c0ea3@e9g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.28.151.164 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1297300455 15690 127.0.0.1 (10 Feb 2011 01:14:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:14:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.28.151.164; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17194 Date: 2011-02-09T17:14:14-08:00 List-Id: On Feb 9, 2:59=A0pm, John McCormick wrote: > On Feb 9, 1:23=A0pm, Martyn Pike wrote: > > > > > John McCormick ( on another thread ) says they have only just handed > > the final proofs and hope to have hard copy in April. =A0I will be be > > interested to see what amazon say now ! > > Indeed! =A0If anyone finds a copy earlier they can let me know so I can > get one :) =A0I think that April is realistic. =A0I do appreciate all of > the excitment generated in this thread. =A0Frank, J=E9r=F4me, and I hope = our > work justifies it. This semester is the second time students in my > real-time embedded systems class have used the manuscript. =A0The first > group did a good job telling me where we needed to improve our > explanations. =A0Authors learn a lot from novices. =A0The second group > hasn't made any suggestions (yet) so maybe we got it right. > > John I'm looking forward to getting it; but I might not be able to when it's "hot off the presses."