From: MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (Mike Feldman)
Subject: Re: Ada Texts for experienced programmers
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 14:04:00 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Sun Sep 13 14:04:00 1987
Message-ID: <8709131726.AA09424@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
I am partial to Narain Gehani's two books:
Ada, an Advanced Introduction, Prentice Hall 1983
Ada: Concurrent Programming, Prentice Hall 1984.
Gehani is well-educated, knows his languages and his OS's. He's one of
the few Ada I've encountered who doesn't patronize the reader by selling
Ada as the greatest thing since sliced bread. He assumes the reader knows
something and starts from there. I particularly like the tasking book
for its balanced and analytical view of tasking in the context of
concurrent programming in general.
For another excellent analysis of tasking (more critical than Gehani
but usually on target) see if you can get
Concurrent Programming in Ada by Alan Burns
Cambridge University Press, 1985
The first half is a good tasking tutorial, the second half a critique.
I have heard good things about Norman Cohen's book
Ada as a Second Language
but have only skimmed it myself.
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