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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:33:23 -0500
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Date: 2012-07-19T01:33:23-05:00
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"Ada novice" <shai.lesh@gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:3c8f0f00-14e0-4059-9a3a-66fb2547d7a6@googlegroups.com...
> Books I have seen:
...
> Haven't seen this one:
> Pyle. Developing Safety Systems: A Guide Using Ada
>
> but perhaps it can be close to one of the author's other The ADA 
> programming language
> : a guide for programmers from 1985, which was a readable and well written 
> book.

We used to distribute this to our customers that needed an introduction to 
Ada.

The Ada Programming Language, I.C. Pyle (a green cover).

(I just got a copy off of our Ada bookshelf - I never throw anything out.)

We eventually replaced it by:

Ada: An Advanced Introduction, Narian Gehani (a blue cover).

which we thought was more readable. (I'm holding it right now, but I'm not 
going to go read it to see...)

After that, we developed and printed our own introduction to Ada.

I've got at least a dozen other books, most of which I barely remember and 
probably never looked in.

The only ones I really remember was Norm Cohen's "Ada as a Second Language" 
(which sadly someone took home and never returned to RR's library), and 
Do-While Jones "Ada in Action". Both were pretty good for their time.

Most the content of these books is covered in modern books like "Ada 
Distilled" and John Barnes' huge "Programming in Ada 2005".

                                         Randy.