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 09:51:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier? Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 16:57:30 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3B17BB6A.260D8412@brighton.ac.uk> References: <9f2tuk$hbg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f5n1i$iqq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B17A028.A4A91C3F@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 991411048 25291 193.62.183.204 (1 Jun 2001 15:57:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Jun 2001 15:57:28 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7986 Date: 2001-06-01T15:57:28+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <3B17A028.A4A91C3F@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says... > > > >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++. > > Well, all we have to do now is wait for 75 years after you die, and we can just > release it on the web for anyone to read or print out. :-) > > Yet another illustration of why the copyright period is *far* too long. Don't worry, I'm getting the copyright back and plan to release my book online in the near future... ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------