From: thoyt@DDN-WMS.ARPA (Thomas Hoyt)
Subject: Ada Primer...
Date: 2 Jun 89 16:40:37 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8906021638.AA12016@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In Issue #143, Charles Fineman writes...
>Subject: Ada Primer
>... Both of
>us feel The Haberman & Perry book (Ada for experienced programmers) is
>a WASTE of money. It's defficient in so may areas, I won't even go into
>it.
After having just suffered through an advanced ada class with this
book, I (and the rest of my classmates) can only agree. Its treatment of
advanced features was patchy at best, obtuse at worst. Some chapters were
strictly burn-before-reading stuff...
>I have looked through Programming in Ada by J.G.P. Barnes. It looks
>pretty good.
...but a bit much as a primer, I think, but a good reference. Has anyone
seen a really good, concise, clear, introductory programming book for Ada?
Oh well, back to the LRM....
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1989-06-02 16:40 Thomas Hoyt [this message]
1989-06-06 0:10 ` Ada Primer Scott Moody
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1989-06-05 19:10 Mark Oestmann
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