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: 103376,84ae183ca2859d2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John Howard Subject: "Ada as a second language" book Date: 1996/03/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144921018 organization: SkyNET Corporation content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Yesterday I got a copy of the book for $39. I had ordered it three weeks ago at a local Anderson's book store. Last month the expected price was $64. Thanks for the bargain! I am a Borland Pascal refugee and this is an excellent book: Cohen, Norman H. Ada as a Second Language, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1996. 1133 pp. (ISBN: 0-07-011607-5) Encyclopedic in scope, this book covers all of Ada 95, including the predefined packages and the specialized-needs annexes. Each chapter ends with a section addressed to users of Ada-83 compilers. Comparisons with C, C++, COBOL, Fortran, and Pascal avoid misconceptions about Ada and help readers recognize a new notation for a familiar concept. Proceeding from introductory explanations of fundamental software-engineering and programming concepts to detailed and enlightening discussions of language features, and containing hundreds of complete examples, Ada as a Second Language serves as both a tutorial introduction and a complete reference to the Ada language. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- John Howard -- Team Ada Team OS/2 -- -- Free Ada 95 compilers at ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Psalm 22:30-31