Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

[John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>]

"Marin D. Condic" wrote:
> I still find it a bit of a roadblock that there isn't a shrink-wrap kit
> available that has everything bundled together with suitable
> documentation...

Hmm. I feel an advert break coming on... :-)

BURKS 5 is now out (a 3 CD set, now it's reached its 5th year) and has
GNAT 3.13, GNATCOM, ADAGIDE, GRASP, and a bunch of other stuff (LRM95,
the Rationale, the Style Guide, the Lovelace tutorial, etc). Will this
fit the bill?

The reason it takes up 3 CDs is that it also includes Red Hat 6.2,
compilers and tutorials for another couple of dozen languages, a
dictionary of computing with about 13,000 entries, hyperlinked copies
of all the online RFCs, and a shedload of other useful odds and sods.
It costs �6.00 (about $10.00 US?) for about 2 gig of software and
documentation. It's fully indexed, and the 3 CDs act together as a
single co-ordinated website (there's a bundled copy of Netscape or
you can use your own browser, and you get prompted to change disks
when necessary).

The whole lot is available online at http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/ --
the Ada section is at http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/ada/
and
the Pascal section is at
http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/pascal/.
Might be worth a look, IMHO.

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