Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 15/07/2012 14:33, in article
3c8f0f00-14e0-4059-9a3a-66fb2547d7a6@googlegroups.com, "Ada novice"
<shai.lesh@gmx.com> wrote:

> Books I have seen:
> 
> 1. Haberman. Ada for Experienced Programmers
> Compares Ada and Pascal side by side. Programs are given mainly for numerical
> computations. Felt that it discussed too much of the program implementation in
> Pascal rather than in Ada. Not that good book for Ada.
> 
> 2. Ford. Scientific Ada
> Much of what is in the book about scientific computations is found in Ada
> standards. Discusses a few algorithms here and there but otherwise not much
> interesting.
> 
> Haven't seen this one:
> Pyle. Developing Safety Systems: A Guide Using Ada
> 
> but perhaps it can be close to one of the author's other The ADA programming
> language : a guide for programmers from 1985, which was a readable and well
> written book.

If we are talking about ancient artifacts, there is always:

Ada: Language and Methodology,
D.A. Watt, B.A. Wichmann and W. Findlay.
Prentice-Hall, 1987.

... which has one of the original designers of Ada as a co-author, a
placatory foreword by Tony Hoare, and, of course, moi!

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