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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cd0a84dbd6b9ac94,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.222.225 with SMTP id qp1mr16080pbc.8.1349138723321; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Path: t10ni23603310pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:45:20 -0400 From: =?UTF-8?B?QXJuZSBWYWpow7hq?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Recommended books to learn Java References: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <506a3922$0$295$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.192.23.141 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=^oC8?7YCXlUOP]JQ=foLd_YSB=nbEKnk[E4O[5j5bPoTJPe3\kP5EUQKBm9cfh9BSTM2;kT<[:>[Qj\R8gSVHShR90[f>C0ZY4W X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-10-01T20:45:20-04:00 List-Id: On 10/1/2012 12:59 PM, John B. Matthews wrote: > In article , > Dan Kalish wrote: >> When I learned Pascal, I only had one book, the official version. >> [...] >> SNOBOL is fun. Did you know the Library of Congress uses SNOBOL? At >> least they did in around 1998. > > You may also want to look at Ada, which descends in part from Pascal. > GNAT, a popular reference implementation, includes a (non-Ada-standard) > SPITBOL extensions library: And actually GNAT has a flavor JGNAT that outputs Java byte code for the JVM. I don't think it ever was popular though. Arne