Re: Ada Book

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

K&R is an interesting book.  It 'straddles the line' between being the
defining reference (i.e. "standard") for the language, and being an
"introduction to programming in C" book.  In this respect, it's like
Wirth's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" book.  

However, many people cite "K&R" as the 'language standard', and for a
long time K&R (and the pcc compiler) were the definitions of the C
language.  For that usage of K&R, the Ada Language Standard fits the
bill. 

				dave

p.s.  I had a copy of Wegner's book, once upon a time...
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