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,UTF8 Received: by 10.224.59.73 with SMTP id k9mr7973175qah.4.1342999672705; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.75.39 with SMTP id z7mr1205344pav.6.1342999672636; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.75.7 with SMTP id y7mr1401066pav.12.1342999672536; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Path: a15ni59622917qag.0!nntp.google.com!x2no5492305qaj.0!news-out.google.com!p10ni33323252pbh.1!nntp.google.com!u4no14383562pbs.0!news-out.google.com!b9ni34666726pbl.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: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pre-Ada95 books still worth reading Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:29:04 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9bf283a230abc1bf5b8bf7ae893d3723"; logging-data="10312"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+YPJN5RWj1YvL8Rixy6mfZMPY7l4dzs8A=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zMmScY1bE6bvJWIMlX/hgsyaf4M= sha1:yPpjRe3hfmj7y6/MjUSrp+mooRo= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-07-15T12:29:04+01:00 List-Id: "J-P. Rosen" writes: > Le 14/07/2012 23:44, Simon Wright a écrit : >> 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. There may be two different books, of course. The one I used to have was definitely about Ada.