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From: thoyt@DDN-WMS.ARPA (Thomas Hoyt)
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Subject: Ada Primer...
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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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