Re: Cohen: "Ada As A Second Language" - 05 Update?

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"Lucretia" <lucretia9@lycos.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> On Apr 27, 2:34 pm, PnkFlyd <pnkflyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I sent an email to Norman Cohen a while back about an update to the
> book, here's his reply:
>
1) Cohen's book is not really "out-of-date."  While it does not
    cover some of the new features of the latest version of Ada,
    it does cover the features of the largest revision of the language,
    to date.   Everything in the Cohen book will still work.

2) John Barnes has written a book on Ada 2005.  That book is quite
    comprehensive.   It is published by Addison-Wesley, and anything
    you need to update your knowledge of Ada is in that book.  The
    criticism of Barnes' book has sometimes been that the examples
    are not as fully coded as in the Cohen book.   Dr. Barnes has
    addressed that criticism and you will find some fully coded examples.

3) I will make the electronically modifiable source code and text for
    my own book, Ada Distilled, available to someone who is serious
    about updating it for Ada 2005.   So far, no one has taken me up
    on that.  At present, I don't have the time to do it myself.  That was
    my original intent, but too much time is passing without that update
   occurring.

    Ada Distilled comes with a lot of small source file programs, all fully
    coded and most of them tested, that one can play with and use for
    experiments.   Whoever updates Ada Distilled will have to add to the
    collection of working Ada programs to keep the spirit of that book alive.

Richard Riehle