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: 103376,84a984abf386b725 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: introdution of Ada Date: 1998/10/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 397672903 References: <361276D8.85D111E4@tknet.tku.edu.tw> <3612B151.2A43E9FC@boeing.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: 907526274 26083 bpr 206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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