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: 103376,52a7917d54f1cb4e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-17 09:07:52 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!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!news-east.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BA61FD8.805B919B@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: book References: <3BA609F3.4050904@_altern_DOT._org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:07:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.165.20.67 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 1000742879 24.165.20.67 (Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:07:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:07:59 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13128 Date: 2001-09-17T16:07:59+00:00 List-Id: > Tx for hints & no controverse ! I really liked "Ada as a Second Language." Very well organized. Very useful if you already know C++, COBOL, and/or Fortran 9x. Well-indexed as well. Extremely dense, in the sense that as you get farther into it, it may take several long seconds to figure out what a single sentence means, since if you haven't internalized all the Ada terminology, you have to translate from "classwide typess with derived types containing unconstrained arrays with limited components ..." to what that actually means in English. :-) It is not specific to any particular OS or compiler, however. (Which may be good or bad, depending on your needs.) -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. Who is this Dr. Ibid anyway, and how does he know so much?