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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e2e5d82f29423074 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: best ADA 95 bible ? (fwd) Date: 2000/02/22 Message-ID: <38b32dc9@eeyore.callnetuk.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 588631400 References: X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: da132d148.dialup.callnetuk.com X-Trace: 23 Feb 2000 00:46:01 GMT, da132d148.dialup.callnetuk.com X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Date: 2000-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 :-) -- Nick Roberts http://www.adapower.com/lab/adaos