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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Looking for better Ada books
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"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.