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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cb665c6c98eabf5d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Norman H. Cohen" Subject: Re: Ada for C programmers Date: 1996/12/23 Message-ID: <32BEA182.3AC5@watson.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 205604494 references: content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: ncohen@watson.ibm.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Rich Maggio wrote: > When C++ became "all the rage", there came many books targeted to the C programmer > that was moving to C++ and OO thinking. Wouldn't one for Ada be useful? > > I am not saying that C better than Ada or anything, but the fact of the matter is > that there are LOTS of seasoned C programmers out there. If the idea is to try to > "convert" as many C programmers over to Ada as possible, wouldn't such a guide/book > be valuable to the "Ada cause"? Is there such a book? Has anyone contemplated > putting such a book/document together? C is certainly one of the "first languages" addressed in "Ada as a Second Language". (C++ is another.) -- Norman H. Cohen mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen