Paper or Plastic?

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9fglbb$a06$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>
>That said, I'd still rather see a few generally available Ada texts
>(beginning..advanced) in PDF or HTML (with .ZIP versions for download) stuck
>out on web pages with little or no restriction in use, than to have
>expensive, hard to get, out-of-print paper versions as the only source for
>material. Better for everyone if material a publisher doesn't want anymore
>ends up on a web page where students & the general public can get at it
>and - if desired - slaughter a few trees to print it out. PDF is better than
>no books at all - and it has its advantages as well.

More to the point, I think it would help Ada out immensly as well. Whenever I
need to learn a new language or complicated tool, I always do a web search for
online learning guides. It would be really nice to have such a guide available
for Ada. 

Plus if the online version becomes widely used, it might even reignite interest
in the dead-tree edition...

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