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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30d250cac30c46d3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-14 12:18:10 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Books on Ada Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:03:46 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <98oirs$a70$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3AACB939.8310804A@liv.ac.uk> <4xHc6jfJ4Jka@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3AAFA890.3245DF60@ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 984600252 10464 136.170.200.133 (14 Mar 2001 20:04:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Mar 2001 20:04:12 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5732 Date: 2001-03-14T20:04:12+00:00 List-Id: I have no clue as to how much money textbooks of this sort make for the authors. I've heard that quite often the $$$ value of publishing a technical (college course level) book is pretty small. It might be the sort of thing that would be more valuable from a "promotional" point of view if it were freely available as a download from the Internet. (Assuming the author's name is prominent in the text and it gets used in a lot of classes & contexts, it makes the author that much more of a widely recognized expert - moreso than might already be the case. :-) It would certainly be of benefit to Ada if there were a good college level text that could be downloaded along with a compiler, etc. at no cost to the student/hobbyist. There are on-line learning materials already, but a good book in PDF or some other format that potentially can be sent to a printer and looked at with leasure while sitting on the back porch, holding a boat drink might just encourage a few more people to consider Ada. It would have some attraction to those teaching a class in Ada as well...... MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Lao Xiao Hai" wrote in message news:3AAFA890.3245DF60@ix.netcom.com... > I have a book with the working title, > > Object-oriented Software Engineering in Ada > > that I thought was going to be published by Prentice-Hall. Then they > told me > that they had decided not publish anymore Ada books, even though they > liked > what I had created. Now, I am looking for another publisher. > > I have another book, Ada Distilled, that I use in my classes at Naval > Postgraduate > School. After a couple more revisions, and some corrections suggested > by Ed > Colbert, I may put that book on the AdaWorks web site so people can > download it. > > Richard Riehle > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- > > Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > > Not exactly. > > > > > See the web page > > > http://www.science-books.net/ada.htm > > > > I see Programming and Problem Solving in Ada by N.B.Dale (2000) > > as the only publication since 1999 and most of the others I own. >