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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,af5bf4e3cf0c28b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-01 23:22:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!denver-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!coop.net!newsfeed1.global.lmco.com!svlnews.lmms.lmco.com!news1.lmtas.lmco.com!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier? Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:03:02 -0500 Organization: LM Aeronautics Message-ID: <3B17AEA6.39A75C35@lmtas.lmco.com> References: <9f2tuk$hbg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f5n1i$iqq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B17A028.A4A91C3F@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: CAA261517.lmtas.lmco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; LMTAS} (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf To: scottg@flash.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8011 Date: 2001-06-01T10:03:02-05:00 List-Id: 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. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk > Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je > Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** > University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk > -----------------------------------------------------------------