From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,af5bf4e3cf0c28b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-04 14:25:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9fglbb$a06$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Paper or Plastic? Message-ID: <90TS6.4233$v4.216901@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 17:24:21 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 21:24:21 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8096 Date: 2001-06-04T21:24:21+00:00 List-Id: 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... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com