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-Thread: 103376,5e39f200c5d9b6dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <42D3DAF6.255AC3EC@raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Book recommendation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:00:06 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.93.107 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1121180408 147.24.93.107 (Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:00:08 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:00:08 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12014 Date: 2005-07-12T08:00:06-07:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a computer programmer with C++ experience. Currently I work in the > real-time environment and I would like to broaden my perspective on > languages and tools that can be effectively used in the area of > real-time, distributed and concurrent programming. > > Note that very likely I will *not* be using Ada professionally. > > There are two books that I found and that I think would help me: > > - Programming in Ada 95 (Barnes) > - Concurrency in Ada (Barns) > > I learned that Ada community is preparing for the new standard release > this year. > > My questions are: > - Would you recommend these two books (which focus on Ada95) anyway? > - Are there any changes planned in the *relevant* parts of the language > that would render these two books outright obsolete? > - Or maybe there are new editions planned for later this year (I don't > mind waiting)? > > Regards, > > -- > Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ > Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/ They are both outstanding books along with "Ada 95 as a Second Language". I like Barnes' book best for learning the language. He was, after all, one of the creators of the original Ada 83. Jerry -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Jerry Petrey, CFI - GNC Software Engineer, Raytheon Missile Systems -- "The ultimate responsibility of the pilot is to fulfill the dreams -- of the countless millions of earthbound ancestors who could only -- stare skyward ... and wish." -- -- NOTE: please perform appendectomy on email address before replying ------------------------------------------------------------------------