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From: "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: Best ada books?
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:14:12 -0500
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"Alex Gibson" <alxx@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> "Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
> news:b8e681$bgm$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de...
> > Alex Gibson <alxx@ihug.com.au> wrote:
> > : Okay this is always a bit of a subjective question asking about
> > : programming books but usually worth asking anyway.
> > :
> > : If you had a choice of two ada books which would it be.
> >
> > Have you been looking at
> > http://www.adapower.com/books/ ?
> > There are some links to reveiws and online books as well.
> >
> > --Georg
>
> The problem is quite a few of those books seem to
> be out of print.
>
> Local bookshops here in Sydney don't usually carry any Ada books.
> Have to order them in with up to 6 months wait.
>
> The only book in stock is
>  Programming In Ada 95 by Barnes   Second edition.
>
> Amazon has quite a few but even some of the ones they have in stock are
out
> of print with the publishers.

TIP:  Amazon USA is very bad about keeping things in stock, partly because
of a really stupid US tax code provision.  I have had good luck finding
things at Amazon UK that Amazon USA says are gone forever.