Which books?

["W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM>]

Bob Parzick asked:
:> Any recommendations on authors/titles to look for in the current realm?
:> Are there books that are more current?  Anyway I am checking out a couple
:> of the beginner/intro to ada books from 80 and 82 I think.

I would not advise trying to learn Ada from books written during that time.
The standard for the OLD version of the language was dated later than that!

And if a book has any quality to it, it was started many months before its
publication date.

In particular, I would advise against Peter Wegner's book (which I own a
copy of).  It is appears to be a quality book.  Its problem is that it
was written with the assumption that some of the preliminary ideas would
not be changed in the final standard.  I can't remember all of the illegal
constructs I found, but I know there were more than one.  The only one I
remember now (several years after reading the book) is the "assert"
statement.

Interesting how so many people feel so strongly about that, yet it still
didn't make it into the recent revision.  Sort of like U.S. politics.  :-)

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