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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,14493fc93e95b53e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-25 02:36:11 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!zib-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!cs.york.ac.uk!tgc102 From: tgc102@minster.york.ac.uk (Thomas G. Coles (1W0)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FWD: Re: ADA reference Message-ID: <793708571.0@cs.york.ac.uk> Date: 25 Feb 1995 10:36:11 GMT References: <950222133031.2180f482@ECC7.ATENG.AZ.HONEYWELL.COM> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: 1995-02-25T10:36:11+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:30:31 -0700, Chuck Bramlet ("ELL447::BRAMLET"@ECC7.ATENG.AZ.HONEYWELL.COM) wrote: : Donald Griffin writes... : >I need a good book for Ada reference. : I have several on my bookshelf. Each has it's benifits and : it's pitfalls. They are: : Programming in ADA, 3rd edition, J.G.P. Barnes : Software Engineering with ADA, 2nd Edition, Grady Booch : ADA as a Second Language, , Norman H. Cohen : I frequently find that part of the answer to a question is in : more than one of these books. I also find that often I have to : go "ask another programmer", as the books are not clear in their : explanations. : Chuck bramlet : bramlet@eccx.ateng.az.honeywell.com A much (and everyone here says it) better book than Barnes for beginners with the language is Jan Skansholm's Ada from the Beginning (2nd ed.) It is superbly translated from Swedish (I think Swedish, whack me over the head with a limp VB Programmer's Manual if I'm wrong) and I find it both indispensible and the only book I ever need (but them I am only and undergrad! :-) ) Thomas - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas Coles tgc102@ugrad.cs.york.ac.uk Goodricke College or tgc102@minster.york.ac.uk University of York "God preserve us from York, YO1 5DD, UK religious nutters"