* Re: Books on 95 (fwd)
@ 1996-05-07 0:00 Dave
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Chris Papademetrious
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From: Dave @ 1996-05-07 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Apparently, John Barnes and a few others, were a little confused about
some comments I recently made concerning his book "Programming in
Ada95". What follows is part of my reply to Barnes -- which should clear up
everything.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
On Tue, 7 May 1996, John Barnes wrote:
> >
> > Barnes was a major contributor to the original version of Ada. Unlike his
> > previous books, this one is organized in more of a tutorial fashion and less
> > of a handbook fashion.
>
> Why do you feel the organization is different? I had to do some reorganization
> because of the changes of impact of certain features. And things are more
> interwoven in 95. But generally I felt that it was still much the same.
> I had to move access types much earlier because of needing them for OO. But
> maybe it is the fact that I felt the need to put in a later chapter
> on OO techniques which pulls things together which gives you that impression.
> And of course I expanded the opening chapter 2 into three chapters (but that
> was just something I meant to do when I wrote the original in 1982 but ran out
> of energy).
>
> Do you think the book is not so good as a consequence? There will always
> be another edition one day.
Actually, John, I feel that the new book is much much better than the old
one. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the old edition here in my
office, so I cannot give you any specifics. However, the fact that
"things are more interwoven in 95" makes it much more useful for teaching
Ada. I realize that these changes were not that significant from the
writer's viewpoint; however, from the reader's viewpoint they can be very
significant. This is especially true if someone is learning Ada95 for the
first time. In fact, I feel that your book is the best book for teaching
an experienced programmer Ada95.
I do agree that the new book contains all of the information which was in
the old book, so it still does make an excellent handbook.
<cut>
Keep up the good work!
-- Dave Jones
davedave@io.com
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* Re: Books on 95 (fwd)
1996-05-07 0:00 Books on 95 (fwd) Dave
@ 1996-05-09 0:00 ` Chris Papademetrious
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From: Chris Papademetrious @ 1996-05-09 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dave <davedave@io.com> wrote:
>Actually, John, I feel that the new book is much much better than the old
>one. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the old edition here in my
>office, so I cannot give you any specifics. However, the fact that
>"things are more interwoven in 95" makes it much more useful for teaching
>Ada. I realize that these changes were not that significant from the
>writer's viewpoint; however, from the reader's viewpoint they can be very
>significant. This is especially true if someone is learning Ada95 for the
>first time. In fact, I feel that your book is the best book for teaching
>an experienced programmer Ada95.
This is the book that I'm currently learning from. I'm really
enjoying the read, it's keeping me almost as hooked as a good
espionage novel! :-)
I'm still quite in the dark about how to structure a large package,
and whether I should be using child packages or not for some various
implementations of things, but I suppose I'll have patience and maybe
that will get explained later.
- Chris
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