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From: adambeneschan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Best book to learn ada? assuming openbsd 5.4 amd64 box here
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:26:02 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2014-02-21T16:26:02-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b5d406c-cec0-44e2-9076-0191e2d4ab85@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65a2e5b5-b681-49b1-b667-20c3718c2203@googlegroups.com>

On Friday, February 21, 2014 3:22:24 PM UTC-8, Jerry wrote:

> My standard reply to this question is Norman H. Cohen's Ada as a Second Language. I have the second edition which is for the 95 standard. I wish it would be udpated for newer Ada's but that's not happening. I find his exposition to be outstanding, and he doesn't weigh the book down with lengthy examples or a running book-lengh example, only short, to-the-point examples.
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> Amazon lists it new for $595.15 to $3,295.38 (U.S.) or used at $84.85. I'd say used would be your best buy. 8^)

Amazon pricing is one of those mysteries of the universe no one can understand.  For a good laugh, read this: 
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

                               -- Adam


      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-22  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-20 11:00 Best book to learn ada? assuming openbsd 5.4 amd64 box here johannes falcone
2014-02-20 14:51 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-02-20 20:23   ` jmccormick
2014-02-23 18:15   ` GianLuigi Piacentini
2014-02-23 18:26     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-20 20:46 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-02-21  5:59   ` Tero Koskinen
2014-02-20 20:59 ` rriehle
2014-02-21  0:00   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-02-21 23:22 ` Jerry
2014-02-22  0:26   ` adambeneschan [this message]
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