Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 1.0)

[Javier Miranda <javiermirandag@netscape.net>]

wojtek@power.com.pl wrote:

>>In article <mailman.1039894383.18184.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
>>  Javier Miranda <javiermirandag@netscape.net> writes:
>>    
>>
>>>   I am glad to announce version 1.0 of my free book on the GNAT
>>>Run-Time. It is already available at:
>>>      
>>>
>
>Javier,
>
>Thank you very much for this book. Although I am using it only to
>alleviate my pathological curiosity of how Ada works internally, the
>value of your work, not only for this application, is enormous!
>  
>
Wojtek,

  The effort invested in writing the book has been also enormous! The only
references I had were the GNAT sources and the papers found in WEB
written by professor Ted Baker (FSU), some of them now out-of-date.
In addition to the technical document, I also had to add the hyper-links 
to the
Run-Time sources. In the beta versions I initially did all the work
by hand (a lot of work!). In this version I have writen some scripts
which facititate to me this work.

   One of the main benefits of the free technology is that we can learn 
a lot
from it (at least I did!). In the case of Ada, GNAT is an excellent compiler
which gives many possibilities for research and teaching (not only about Ada
but also about POSIX and, in general, Software  Enginneering). I assume
the book has bugs (and things to improve). From here I request help to have
up-to-date documents which give details to a big community of researchers
and students which can also learn from it.

Thanks for your comments !

--- Javier

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