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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,161db58f8278c51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John J Cupak Jr Subject: Re: Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People" Date: 2000/01/31 Message-ID: <3895C60D.7EED57F4@res.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 579961991 References: <20000129150740.12476.00000187@nso-fg.aol.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------48D5B8E08457AC707B77BF2E" X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 949339735 138.127.184.129 (Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:28:55 CST) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:28:55 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------48D5B8E08457AC707B77BF2E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bard, et. al., I can't speak for any publisher, but there WAS a nice Ada 83 "nutshell" (although not by the O'Reilly folks) book entitled "Ada Programmer's Handbook" by Dean W. Gonzalez, 1991, Benjamin/Cumming Publishing Company, Inc. I picked it up at a book sale, and thought it was a wonderful handbook. We certianly need such a book for Ada 95! Please let me know how you make out! John "Ada Forever" Cupak BSCrawford wrote: > Teamers, > > The need for a small book called "Ada for Dummies" was discussed > here a while back, and someone suggested it should be called > "Ada for Smart People" instead. > > Well, I have drafted a small volume called "Ada Essentials: > Overview, Examples and Glossary" and now I am hoping to find a > publisher. This is new territory for me, and I seek any advice > you teamers care to give, as to specific publishers I might > contact or how to go about this process in general. > > By the way, I plan to make this volume available in several > different forms (some electronic) -- one of which is a > browser-based collection of web pages. I would be happy to > send a copy of the current draft to, say, each of the first 20 > teamers who request one from me directly via email (not through > this list). > > Bard S. Crawford > bscrawford@aol.com --------------48D5B8E08457AC707B77BF2E Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="John_J_Cupak.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for John J Cupak Jr Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="John_J_Cupak.vcf" begin:vcard n:Cupak Jr;John J tel;fax:978.858.4336 tel;work:978.858.1222 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Raytheon Company;Northeast Software Training version:2.1 email;internet:John_J_Cupak@res.raytheon.com title:Software Engineering Instructor adr;quoted-printable:;;50 Apple Hill Road=0D=0AT3MN35;Tewksbury;MA;01876;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;9904 fn:John J Cupak Jr end:vcard --------------48D5B8E08457AC707B77BF2E--