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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: introdution of Ada
Date: 1998/10/01
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Pat Rogers (progers@acm.org) wrote:

: ... However, I
: strongly urge you not to (try to) use the language Reference Manual
: as a learning tool.  They don't call it a "reference" document for
: nothing.

One new interesting book is "Ada for Software Engineers" by
M. Ben-Ari, because it can be used as something like a "reader's 
guide" to the Ada 95 Reference Manual.  In each section, it
includes relevant "boxed" quotes from the reference manual, preceded
and followed by quite readable explanations and helpful examples.

: -- pat

: Patrick Rogers
: progers@acm.org
: http://www.neosoft.com/~progers

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