Re: Cohen: "Ada As A Second Language" - 05 Update?

["pakman" <pakman744@nospam.com>]

Greetings,

As a reviewer of Cohen's Ada as a 2nd Language, 2nd ed, I had contacted Mr. 
Cohen and asked him if he had any plans of updating his excellent text for 
Ada 2005.

He replied that he did not have any plans to revise the text. I suspect his 
work has taken him away from keeping up with Ada 2005.

Most unfortunate, as I've considered Mr. Cohen's text the be the most 
complete and nearly perfect of all the Ada texts.

Perhaps if we petition IBM and Mr. Cohen he might reconsider.

I would be willing to review the text again.

John Cupak

"PnkFlyd" <pnkflyd831@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1177680878.226297.151180@s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> In a previous thread many people mentioned that they use Cohen's book,
> as do our staff here at my work (15 Ada programmers).
>
> Cohen's website 
> http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/ncohen.index.html
> does not mention any recent activity in the area writing a 3rd edition
> to incorporate Ada05.
>
> Have any of you heard from Cohen any interest in doing so?  Do you
> think there is enough of an interest to make it a financially viable
> option that we could possibly champion?  I would hate to see Cohen's
> excellent book not be picked up by new Ada programmers just because
> the book is "out of date".
>