From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,d730ea9d54f7e063 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173992190 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1996-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4unvt6$rq8@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Craig Franck writes: > "James A. Squire" wrote: > >Craig Franck wrote: > > >> I think part of the resistance to Ada is C belongs to the world. > >> Ada belongs to the government! :-) > > > >Yesterday's news. Today this is no longer true, conceptually. > >Implementation may take awhile yet, but the Ada language is going > >commercial. Count on it. > > You are correct. When I made this statement, I used as a referece > some old texts, that are clearly not up to date. Time to go to > Barnes & Noble and buy something on Ada 95! Perhaps that way my > comments will be more likely to correspond to the current state > of the language. Coupla suggestions: Barnes: Programming in Ada95 Cohen's _2nd_ Edition Ada as a Second Language (completely revamped for Ada95) For some _really_ good stuff on concurrency and concurrency with OO, Burns, Welling: Concurrency in Ada (Ada95 version). Also, you can get hypertext/html versions of the Ada95 RM and Rationale at http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ There you will also find Web based tutorials and a pretty good (largish) paper on Ada for C/C++ programmers. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com