From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: introdution of Ada
Date: 1998/10/04
Date: 1998-10-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810041120120.4357-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3612B151.2A43E9FC@boeing.com
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Peter Milliken wrote:
> Sorry, I can't agree with the recommendations about the Barnes book. I found
> it difficult to read (I used the 2nd edition many years ago, but it doesn't
> appear to have changed much with successive revisions). The snippets of code
> rarely compile or can be used stand-a-lone.
The newest edition has six complete example programs, including one
example of a storage allocator using the Storage_Pools facility. I agree
that this is probably not a book to use as an introduction to Ada, though
I like it as a reference.
> My recommendations are:
>
> Ada95 by English (I think the title is correct, I don't have it here, I
> loaned it to a friend who gave up on his Barnes edition :-)) - a very
> "readable" book that develops real examples as the book progresses.
Yes, the title is "Ada 95: The Craft of Object Oriented Programming". This
would be my first choice as an introduction to Ada. I have a few nits to
pick with various opinions he puts forth in the book, but they're pretty
minor. http://www.comp.it.brighton.ac.uk/je/adacraft/ will provide more
info.
> Then, to top them off, get "Ada as a Second Language" by Cohen - a must for
> any Ada programmer, I just wished it was hardback instead of paperback, an
> 1100+ page book doesn't fair that well when bound any other way.
Amen to all of that. I think Cohen's book can wait until the programmer
has decided that they'll continue to use Ada; so I'd suggest that the
poster just get English's book to decide whether they like Ada or not.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-01 0:00 introdution of Ada u7192105
1998-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Milliken
1998-10-02 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-04 0:00 ` paulwade
1998-10-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-10-05 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-10-06 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-06 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-07 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Frank Ecke
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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