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: 103376,5d0710159aafd704 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-28 15:07:19 PST Path: swrinde!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Book Date: 28 Jan 1995 13:27:55 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3ge2bb$h0e@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3g7iff$96i@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-01-28T13:27:55-05:00 List-Id: 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.