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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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-7-bit Received: by 10.216.235.32 with SMTP id t32mr1083198weq.7.1343313185792; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Path: q11ni75599493wiw.1!nntp.google.com!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feed.xsnews.nl!border-3.ams.xsnews.nl!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Brian Drummond Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <67e508lh89b705q2d0u82in99p6u15cel9@invalid.netcom.com> <3c8f0f00-14e0-4059-9a3a-66fb2547d7a6@googlegroups.com> <5008fbca$0$9521$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <6a07ab1e-a435-4da1-bec2-1b0ff6640e44@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0e44dd4a3c4e0a6e83a86f947fb780ae"; logging-data="7859"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kh21qlPL6HLiwzp1pre27S9ZSHXZ5jfo=" User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yn8QMjuXtxXZclbL46t9h7DuyNM= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-07-22T11:55:10+00:00 List-Id: 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