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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c0e0c959f5ef11b4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.177.12 with SMTP id bg12mr1463467qab.0.1343316203196; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.87.74 with SMTP id v10mr1508923paz.36.1343315272917; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Path: a15ni113198934qag.0!nntp.google.com!q21no5491935qas.0!news-out.google.com!b9ni65003602pbl.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-peer1!btnet!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!reality.xs3.de!news.stack.nl!usenet-its.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:49:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4e6c4a8e-6125-47bd-81cc-259bbba3b66f@googlegroups.com> References: <67e508lh89b705q2d0u82in99p6u15cel9@invalid.netcom.com> <3c8f0f00-14e0-4059-9a3a-66fb2547d7a6@googlegroups.com> <5008fbca$0$9521$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <6a07ab1e-a435-4da1-bec2-1b0ff6640e44@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1343015384 14180 127.0.0.1 (23 Jul 2012 03:49:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:49:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-07-22T20:49:43-07:00 List-Id: 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: > > >> &gt; I think there are two different books here, the first by Booch and > >> &gt; Bryan, > >> &gt; Software Engineering with Ada (1994 (3rd ed.) and earlier); > >> &gt; 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).