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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dcef461458f157f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Re: Here we go again... Date: 2000/11/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 692005403 References: <3A0B6C69.19034755@ix.netcom.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 973861067 216.215.67.198 (Fri, 10 Nov 2000 06:57:47 CST) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 06:57:47 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: You can also leave feedback via the Addison Wesley Longman web site at http://www.awl.com Do a catalog search using the information below, then select the book and use the "book feedback" link. Engineering of Software, The: A Technical Guide for the Individual Dick Hamlet, Portland State University Joe Maybee, Xerox Copyright 2001, 416 pp. Cloth format ISBN 0-201-70103-0 "Lao Xiao Hai" wrote in message news:3A0B6C69.19034755@ix.netcom.com... : Concering Dale's message, below, if anyone knows the authors or can : find : their email addresses, we should try to update them on the current : status : of the language. The ignorance expressed in their work is not so : unusual for : this kind of book. I recently tracked down another author, who I will : not : name, and received a thanks for being brought up-to-date. Most authors : : do not want to publish incorrect information, it seems. : : Richard Riehle : : dale wrote: : : > From : > The Engineering of Software : > Hamlet & Maybee, Addison Wesley, -2001-! : > : > "Ada is Pascal based, but it is a complex language : > designed by committee for the military, and that's : > at least three strikes against it." : > : > Also says that Ada is still mandated for use by the U.S. : > Dept. of Defense, and that it is not well supported on : > P.C.s : > : > Sigh. : > : > Dale :