Re: best ADA 95 bible ? (fwd)

["Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>]

My thanks to John for updating my information (that's another book on my
shopping list :-).

I think anyone who has had much experience with technical books will agree
that one error in an entire book is a pretty good standard. I've bought
technical books - especially from a publisher which I shall identify only as
sounding like a playwright, a Scotsman, and a small geographical feature -
in which I could, quite literally, count at least one technical error on
each and every page (that contained technical information). And this would
be in addition to copious spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, as well
as clumsy phraseology.

So, I think John can feel extremely proud that he has found just one
significant error in his book (after publication), which otherwise IMHO
displays exemplary standards for this tricky kind of subject.

As for testing, my motto, after many, many years of programming experience
(I hate saying that ;-), could easily be "test, test, and test again". One
of the things, possibly, that marks out the professional programmer from the
wannabees, is the habit of writing test code that is as sophisticated as the
code it tests. (Now, all I have to do is to remember my own advice :-)

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Nick Roberts
http://www.adapower.com/lab/adaos