From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for better Ada books
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:32:58 -0500
Date: 2016-03-14T18:32:58-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nc7hnb$6bv$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 43d4b90d-4630-47e8-82bc-763c3312653a@googlegroups.com
"mvinn@gmail.com" <ashos.owner@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 9:47:30 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> Anyway, I personally wouldn't bother with books at all, since there are a
>> wide variety of free resources available online these days, and those are
>> just as good as the (expensive) books. As you say, YMMV.
>>
>Note: A book can stay around forever on your shelf. But, an Internet web
>page
>can change or no longer exist. If you print out Internet pages they aren't
>bound
>together. I've never bound them together. These Internet pages sit in
>plastic bags
>which are harder to manage.
Ada Distilled is a PDF that you can download (really, have to download in
that there isn't any other way to read it). And one can download any set of
HTML pages (there are many tools for that). I do that if I've worried about
the permanence of something. (And I do agree that way too much stuff
disappears from the Internet, if it's important, make a copy.)
And books (like pretty everything) do tend to disappear over the decades.
I'd love to still have a copy of "Ada as a Second Language", but it
disappeared long ago. I can believe that one might have trouble finding
something you haven't look at for years on one's computer -- but the same
hold true for physical books. (And there are better search tools on my
computer than there are for my bookshelf. ;-)
All-in-all, I think this is essentially a push.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 15:00 Looking for better Ada books MRV@gmail.com
2016-03-10 16:59 ` Anh Vo
2016-03-10 21:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-11 14:29 ` G.B.
2016-03-12 2:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-12 7:10 ` Hadrien Grasland
2016-03-12 10:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-03-12 18:13 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-03-12 18:13 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-03-14 23:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-13 2:42 ` mvinn@gmail.com
2016-03-14 23:32 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2016-03-15 10:50 ` Bob Butler
2016-03-13 13:30 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-03-10 17:35 ` Olivier Henley
2016-03-11 2:44 ` mvinn@gmail.com
2016-03-14 15:11 ` Olivier Henley
2016-03-11 14:05 ` Brian Drummond
2016-03-14 13:46 ` Luke A. Guest
2016-03-14 15:05 ` Olivier Henley
2016-03-14 17:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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