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,af5bf4e3cf0c28b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-01 08:25:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!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: Cannot use NULL as identifier? Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:19:47 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9f8bqk$h62$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9f2tuk$hbg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f5n1i$iqq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B17A028.A4A91C3F@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 991408788 17602 136.170.200.133 (1 Jun 2001 15:19:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Jun 2001 15:19:48 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: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7980 Date: 2001-06-01T15:19:48+00:00 List-Id: O.K. We're in the age of the Internet and electronic zeros and ones sort of publishing, right? I now have dozens of manuals for a system I'm working with that were all published in .PDF form & it works pretty well. Why not put the book(s) on a web page somewhere in some reasonably common format and make them generally available to students, professors, curious general public, etc? If someone feels the need to have a hard copy, they can run it out on their printer and do their own tree-killing. I think it would help promote Ada and would probably help make the author a bit more well known around the world, etc. Not much money in college textbooks anyway. Just a thought... 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/ "John English" wrote in message news:3B17A028.A4A91C3F@brighton.ac.uk... > Not any more; as far as publishers are concerned, OOP means "out of > print" when applied to Ada :-( > > Mike's book is now OOP, as is mine. We are now having to consider > teaching another language at Brighton because of the lack of suitable > textbooks for beginners. The publishers aren't interested because the > market's too small. And various sections of industry are complaining > that they can't find enough trained Ada developers, so they're being > forced to move to Java or C++. > > Sigh. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk > Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je > Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** > University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk > -----------------------------------------------------------------