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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Peter Hermann Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? Date: 1998/09/21 Message-ID: <6u54oi$79u$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 393225998 References: <6rf59b$2ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6sjnlu$83l$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6skfs7$2s6$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35F252DD.5187538@earthlink.net> <6t4dge$t8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6t5mtp$4ho$1@news.indigo.ie> <35FFE58C.5727@ibm.net> <3600E72E.24C93C94@cl.cam.ac.uk> <6trcar$nq1$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (OSF1/V2.0 (alpha)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: followup reduced to comp.lang.ada : In comp.lang.ada Pat Rogers wrote: > Perhaps you are thinking of that by C.A.R. Hoare. A very similar > situation, after his Turing Award lecture. The book is "Ada > Language and Methodology". In the foreword Hoare says of Ada, among > other nice things: > "... the language incorporates many excellent structural features... > ...one can now look forward to a rapid and widespread improvement in > programming practice, both from those who use the language and from > those who study its concepts and structures. ..." > Authors: Watt, David; Wichmann, Brian; Findlay, William > Prentice-Hall International Series on Computer Science, 1987 > ISBN 0-13-004078-9 I am afraid nobody would buy an 11-year old book about Ada83. -- Peter Hermann Tel+49-711-685-3611 Fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)