Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading

[Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:15:50 -0700, Shark8 wrote:

> On Friday, July 20, 2012 4:05:11 AM UTC-6, Brian Drummond wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:34:01 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

>> > I think there are two different books here, the first by Booch and
>> > Bryan,
>> > Software Engineering with Ada (1994 (3rd ed.) and earlier);
>> > the second by Booch: Software Components with Ada (1987).

>> Thanks Georg,
>> I was unaware of the second book, but thought the first would be a good
>> exposition of the thought process behind them.

> Is that the grey book? And did it have a section on "stream-oriented
> programming" where the idea was to view the program as operating on a
> stream of info, instead of the 'Stream construct/attribute? (I lost the
> book and then moved so most of my Ada books aren't available to me ATM.)

Light grey cover, yes. But I can't find anything explicitly about stream-
oriented programming in it (the 3rd edition), nor is the word "stream" 
even in the index.

- Brian