Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier?

[Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>]

John English wrote:
> 
> Marin David Condic wrote:
> > For OOP in Ada, I rather liked the book "Object Oriented Software In Ada95"
> > by Michael A. Smith. However, there are a number of other books on the
> > subject...
> 
> Not any more; as far as publishers are concerned, OOP means "out of
> print" when applied to Ada :-(
> 
> Mike's book is now OOP, as is mine. We are now having to consider
> teaching another language at Brighton because of the lack of suitable
> textbooks for beginners. The publishers aren't interested because the
> market's too small. And various sections of industry are complaining
> that they can't find enough trained Ada developers, so they're being
> forced to move to Java or C++.

Another one of those red harrings.  Most of our products were/are
programmed in Jovial.  Try finding a trained Jovial employee on the open
market.

> 
> Sigh.
> 
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