Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier?

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

I'm with you WRT the desirability of paper in many circumstances. Books made
of paper are a lot easier to read out at the beach with a homebrew in close
grasp. Large printed documents are sometimes easier to leaf through rapidly,
dog-ear, post-it, gloss, etc., than their electronic counterparts. They will
probably always have advantages - not the least of which is they make good
compost when the subject at hand is no longer important.

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.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
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<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message
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> > I know I _much_ prefer online documentation to paper books!
>   Arghhh!  Let me cast a STRONG vote for bound paper.  Easy on the
> eyes, highly portable, easily loaned for a day or a week, simple
> to spot on the bookshelves even when all you remember is
> "thick with a black spine", usually half the paper of a computer
> printout, and generally cheap/page.