Re: FYI: used ada books are cheap

[onox <denkpadje@gmail.com>]

On Mar 25, 4:38 pm, Patrick <patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
> I am still having some trouble with some topics like tasking. I
> ordered more books to help. Ada 83 vintage books are about $1 used and
> Ada 95 books are about $5. Shipping is about $5-7 dollars per book
> from the UK to Canada or the US to Canada.
>
> http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=ada+programming&sts=...
>
> I ordered 2 new books and about 10 used ones. I can feedbak once I
> receive them if anyone is interested.
>
> Hope this helps-Patrick

Tasking in Ada is easy :) I wouldn't use an Ada 83 or 95 book though
(2005 introduced synchronized interfaces). I bought Programming in Ada
2005 (even though I am a poor student ;)) and found it quite useful
(although it doesn't really explain certain concepts or why things are
the way they are) You can also read about tasking at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Tasking and
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Keywords/interface (some
presentation about lego mindstorms during fosdem 2012 explains how
tasking and Ravenscar profile works on embedded systems)

Via a link in a post of somebody on this newsgroup to Globe_3D I found
a course on concurrent and distributed systems of some Australian
university which uses Ada; lecture 3 (synchronization) explains
protected objects and Ada rendezvous (synchronous message-passing). I
didn't know about entry families and suspension objects!