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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!news-text.cableinet.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Subject: Re: Ada in colleges and universities. From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:17:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.185.234 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-text.cableinet.net 1086646655 82.41.185.234 (Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:17:35 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:17:35 BST Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1219 Date: 2004-06-07T22:17:35+00:00 List-Id: On 7/6/04 11:06 pm, in article GF5xc.95263$dP1.306414@newsc.telia.net, "Bj�rn Persson" wrote: > As a side note, one of the books we had in the first course was > Programming Language Concepts and Paradigms by David A. Watt. The > examples of exception handling in Ada in that book made me decide that I > had to have a closer look at Ada, and here I am now. Then you might like to have a look at his new opus, "Programming Language Design Concepts", which, despite the publisher's blurb downplaying Ada, makes even better use of it for significant examples. (I wrote the concurrency chapters in the new book as well. 8-) -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk