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 10.216.120.201 with SMTP id p51mr2483372weh.3.1343313772072; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Path: q11ni75668377wiw.1!nntp.google.com!feed-C.news.volia.net!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed.x-privat.org!news.swapon.de!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: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:19:26 +0100 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b7ac4c347cd2e988a774c08b2f7df8d"; logging-data="27610"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/GQ+RRS1MrpB8uxp5Y6WJ7ToQCB1AZ1xw=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mZBtBfQhdczk/wWnd34DBd3PmEc= sha1:53PE+SEzh5rJymz70ZxOJt6LPLI= Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2012-07-20T08:19:26+01:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus writes: > On 19.07.12 20:46, Simon Wright wrote: >> Brian Drummond writes: >> >>> One not mentioned so far is Grady Booch and Doug Bryan : Software >>> Engineering with Ada. I don't know how well it is regarded now, but >>> I thought it was good when I read it. Given the Booch Components are >>> still around, it may be worth considering. >> >> The book discusses the Original Booch Components, at >> http://www.adapower.com/original_booch/, not the Ada 95 components at >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/booch95/. > > 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). You're right as far as the 1987 book is concerned (the big black one), which is the one I was thinking of.