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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,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: 103376,35f2d0b80c3e368d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alan Brain Subject: Re: Can anyone recommend a Good Ada book? Date: 1997/06/19 Message-ID: <33A8F593.7AED@dynamite.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 249349771 References: <5nope7$b0j@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <33A5687F.41C6@collins.rockwell.com> Organization: @Home Reply-To: aebrain@dynamite.com.au Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Roy Grimm wrote: > > Scott B Moore wrote: > > > > I'm a CS student new to Ada and looking for a good Ada book. Can anyone > > recommend one? ...thanks > > I've been using "Programming In Ada, Third Edition" by J.G.P. Barnes and > have loved it. The book is written as a text book, but I find it is > usefull as a reference book as well. I used it in a directed study > class when I was in school, and I keep it on my bookshelf at work. The > only thing I find this book doesn't address is implementation specific, > but those parts are detailed in my development environment > documentation. Concur Exactly. Except that I've gone through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions. Parallels my own experience, I learnt Ada using 1st edition back in 83, then kept it and its successors as a reference. -- aebrain@dynamite.com.au <> <> How doth the little Crocodile | Alan & Carmel Brain| xxxxx Improve his shining tail? | Canberra Australia | xxxxxHxHxxxxxx _MMMMMMMMM_MMMMMMMMM 100026.2014 compuserve o OO*O^^^^O*OO o oo oo oo oo By pulling MAERKLIN Wagons, in 1/220 Scale See http://www.z-world.com/graphics/z/master/8856.gif for picture