Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:55:10 AM UTC-6, Brian Drummond wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:15:50 -0700, Shark8 wrote:
> 
> > On Friday, July 20, 2012 4:05:11 AM UTC-6, Brian Drummond wrote:
> >> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:34:01 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> >> > I think there are two different books here, the first by Booch and
> >> > Bryan,
> >> > Software Engineering with Ada (1994 (3rd ed.) and earlier);
> >> > the second by Booch: Software Components with Ada (1987).
> 
> >> Thanks Georg,
> >> I was unaware of the second book, but thought the first would be a good
> >> exposition of the thought process behind them.
> 
> > Is that the grey book? And did it have a section on "stream-oriented
> > programming" where the idea was to view the program as operating on a
> > stream of info, instead of the 'Stream construct/attribute? (I lost the
> > book and then moved so most of my Ada books aren't available to me ATM.)
> 
> Light grey cover, yes. But I can't find anything explicitly about stream-
> oriented programming in it (the 3rd edition), nor is the word "stream" 
> even in the index.
> 
> - Brian

Hm, Thank you. I might be misremembering, it has been a while and I lost the book after my initial skimming, but prior to really reading. :(

The concept seemed fairly intriguing, and when I google it up I always get the 'Stream attribute (and related functions).