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,a3b9e84ceae52b23 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-10 16:21:43 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!darwin.sura.net!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: real numbers in ADA Date: 10 Mar 1995 18:02:25 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3jqlq1$s02@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3jihrc$39n@netserver.univ-lille1.fr> <794851577snz@linkmsd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1995-03-10T18:02:25-05:00 List-Id: In article <794851577snz@linkmsd.com>, David Arno wrote: > >The LRM is *the* book for any Ada related subject - assumming you can >understand it of course, as it is a nightmare to read :-( As language standards go, Ada is about as good as I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. _All_ language standards are good reference docs, but you can't use them as textbooks; they are very legalistic in nature. The Ada 95 and Ada 83 _Rationale_ documents, on the other hand, make good reading; they are discursive and give lots of good examples and insight into why features were desugned as they were. And of course, in the Ada case, these documents are all free on the net. Anyone who'd characterize the Ada LRM _per se_ as a "nightmare" to read, probably hasn't read the others. Most folks haven't read language standards, because they are expensive and, by nature, hard to read. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ One, two, three ways an underdog: Ada fan, Mac fan, Old Liberal Democrat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the WWW: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ or http://info.acm.org/sigada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------