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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c0e0c959f5ef11b4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.66.86.72 with SMTP id n8mr1428732paz.24.1342999638892; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Path: b9ni34669316pbl.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ctu-peer!news.nctu.edu.tw!csnews.cs.nctu.edu.tw!news.cs.nctu.edu.tw!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:20:22 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7e9bca862c6d5d8f3ae7cc171fb955cd"; logging-data="12317"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18xdGmbvK09opm1MeKNhG8B" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:XgXBrdy/YxzWXkJ3PSl491ubXRs= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-07-15T09:20:22+02:00 List-Id: Le 14/07/2012 23:44, Simon Wright a �crit : > wrp writes: > >> Buhr. Practical Visual Techniques in System Design with Applications >> to Ada. > > If this is "System Design with Ada", the author created a graphical > representation of every Ada (83) construct. > > I was unable to understand how this was supposed to be better than using > Ada directly. > AFAIR, Buhr's was not a grapical representation for Ada constructs, but for a design method, based on ASM. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr