Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions

["(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 03/06/2010 11:42, in article 8k1f06t4uc0t319t9v6t3als2ifu5evbku@4ax.com,
"Brian Drummond" <brian_drummond@btconnect.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:16:14 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)
> <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Le Thu, 27 May 2010 17:21:57 +0200, (see below)
>> <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> a �crit:
>>> My experience is that CS/SE students always focus on "coding" at the
>>> expense
>>> of problem analysis, program design, project planning, verification,
>>> validation, documentation, and anything else they find less congenial.
>> I always though this was not so much with these students. So why do they
>> choose it if they are not aware of what it requires ?
>> 
>>> Beware: My ex-students are some of the people who
>>>         wrote the software you are using today. ;-)
>>> 
>> You're teacher too like Stefan ?
> 
> If you learned Pascal, there's a pretty good chance you learned it from
> his book...
> 
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/PASCAL-Introduction-Methodical-Programming-Instruction
> s/dp/0273021885/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275561327&sr=1-1

I much prefer:

<http://www.amazon.co.uk/ADA-Language-Methodology-International-Computing/dp
/0130040789/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275599490&sr=1-1>

But it did not sell nearly as well, despite the complimentary foreword by
C.A.R. Hoare 8-)

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk