Re: Some questions about Ada.

[Dave Jones <davedave@io.com>]

Carl Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
> 
> In article <3188F63D.3325@io.com>, Dave Jones  <davedave@io.com> wrote:
> >By the way, Ada95 is fully object oriented
> >so you can create classes (But be careful:  Ada uses different terms for its
> >object-oriented constructs than other languages do.).
> 
> I've heard about Ada 95. I wasn't able to find any books on it though, so I
> picked up a copy of "Programming in Ada" 3rd Ed. by J.G.P.Barnes. It
> doesn't cover Ada 95 (it's copyright date is '89). I'll go and look on the
> web for stuff about Ada 95, probably tomorrow, actually.
> As far as Ada95 books are concerned, the following are all pretty good:

Barnes, Programming in Ada95
Cohen, Ada as a Second Language, 2nd edition
Feldman & Koffman, Ada95: Problem Solving and Program Design, 2nd edition
Smith, Object-Oriented Software in Ada 95
Naiditch, Redezvous with Ada95

The book by Feldman is an introduction-to-programming book, but it does manage
to cover most of the features of Ada 95.

The book by Cohen is huge (and expensive!:  US$60 in paperback).  It covers 
just about every feature of a very large language.  (BTW, Cohen follows this
newsgroup.)

Barnes was a major contributor to the original version of Ada.  Unlike his 
previous books, this one is organized in more of a tutorial fashion and less
of a handbook fashion.  

The book by Smith is an introduction to Ada 95 and object-oriented methods for
programmers with some experience.  It seems to have been written to be a 
textbook.  It contains a tutorial which guides you in the building of a 
sample application.

Naiditch's book is on about the same level as Barnes' book with a similar 
target audience.

There are also some Ada on-line tutorials.  You can get a list of them from:
http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/ed-train/Welcome.html .

On another subject entirely:  Modula-3 is available for PC's (at least DEC
claims it is -- I haven't tried it out yet).  See the following for more:
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html .  

-- Dave Jones
davedave@io.com