Re: Looking for good Ada95 book

[Ferretwoman@worldnet.att.net (FerretWoman)]

pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) wrote:

>1) On the Ada Standard for reserved words (my LRM has been in moving boxes
>for 4 months and won't be available for another 3): If I remember correctly,
>the reserved words are not only lower case, but appear in bold face. Thus, the
>intent is that they stand out.
 Yes, I believe they are in bold in the LRM

>2) And, reserved words do need to stand out in CS1. Much of the course
>concerns learning the meanings of these words, which also act as roadmaps
>to beginners for understanding code - because much of CS1 concerns algorithms
>embodied in (nested) control structures. As students progress, abstractions
>start to play a larger role, and the importance of reserved words diminishes,
>and so can their prominence.

>3) Final comment to all CS1 instructors: show these discussions to your
>students.

As a student currently learning Ada, I must admit that I really do
like having the reserved words in capital letters.  It makes it easier
to not only remember the words, but also what order to put them and
what they do in the program.

We are required to use capital letters for reserved words in any code
we turn in.