* Re: Some questions about Ada. (fwd)
@ 1996-05-04 0:00 Dave
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
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From: Dave @ 1996-05-04 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Apparently, this post didn't "take" the first time that I sent it.
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Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 10:17:35 -0700
Carl Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
>
> In article <3188F63D.3325@io.com>, Dave Jones <davedave@io.com> wrote:
> >By the way, Ada95 is fully object oriented
> >so you can create classes (But be careful: Ada uses different terms for its
> >object-oriented constructs than other languages do.).
>
> I've heard about Ada 95. I wasn't able to find any books on it though, so I
> picked up a copy of "Programming in Ada" 3rd Ed. by J.G.P.Barnes. It
> doesn't cover Ada 95 (it's copyright date is '89). I'll go and look on the
> web for stuff about Ada 95, probably tomorrow, actually.
> As far as Ada95 books are concerned, the following are all pretty good:
Barnes, Programming in Ada95
Cohen, Ada as a Second Language, 2nd edition
Feldman & Koffman, Ada95: Problem Solving and Program Design, 2nd edition
Smith, Object-Oriented Software in Ada 95
Naiditch, Redezvous with Ada95
The book by Feldman is an introduction-to-programming book, but it does manage
to cover most of the features of Ada 95.
The book by Cohen is huge (and expensive!: US$60 in paperback). It covers
just about every feature of a very large language. (BTW, Cohen follows this
newsgroup.)
Barnes was a major contributor to the original version of Ada. Unlike his
previous books, this one is organized in more of a tutorial fashion and less
of a handbook fashion.
The book by Smith is an introduction to Ada 95 and object-oriented methods for
programmers with some experience. It seems to have been written to be a
textbook. It contains a tutorial which guides you in the building of a
sample application.
Naiditch's book is on about the same level as Barnes' book with a similar
target audience.
There are also some Ada on-line tutorials. You can get a list of them from:
http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/ed-train/Welcome.html .
On another subject entirely: Modula-3 is available for PC's (at least DEC
claims it is -- I haven't tried it out yet). See the following for more:
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html .
-- Dave Jones
davedave@io.com
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* Re: Some questions about Ada. (fwd)
1996-05-04 0:00 Some questions about Ada. (fwd) Dave
@ 1996-05-05 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
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From: Brian Hanson @ 1996-05-05 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
>The book by Cohen is huge (and expensive!: US$60 in paperback). It covers
>just about every feature of a very large language. (BTW, Cohen follows this
>newsgroup.)
This is not uniformly the case. I think I paid $36 at a Barnes and Noble's
and I got the same price from two different cashiers.
Brian Hanson
brh@cray.com
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-- Brian Hanson
-- brh@cray.com
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