Re: Ada 2005 vs Ada 2012

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

On 27/03/2013 16:40, in article kiv7a9$d08$1@dont-email.me, "Jeffrey Carter"
<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:

> On 03/27/2013 04:24 AM, Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>> 
>> That said, one of the attractions of the Barnes book is its
>> comprehensiveness.
>> Trimming back material would potentially take away from that.
> 
> Seems to me that if a comprehensive text for a language doesn't fit in a
> single volume, that's a sign that the language has become Too Damn Big.

That assumes that the publisher's limit on volume size is sensible.
In my long experience, publishers are not sensible (or even competent).

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