Re: Ada Book

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Really Dave, to say that the Ada RM is the equivalent of K&R is not very
helpful, and is really quite false!

The Ada RM is equivalent to the ANSI C standard (or a fairer comparison,
the the proposed ISO C++ standard).

There is no single Ada book that has quite the status of K&R. What happened
here is that the principle designers of Ada 83 (Jean Ichbiah) and Ada 95
(Tucker Taft) and their associates put their energy into producing the
standards documents (I guess Dave this is the sense in which there is an
equivalence), and K&R put their energy into writing an informal non-standard
description.

There are several books that describe pretty much all of Ada and are about
at the same level as K&R. As has been mentioned, John Barnes's book is int
this category, and indeed John was a member of the original Ada design team.