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: 103376,603ffd4a878bd6cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr19.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1177680878.226297.151180@s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1178149620.087751.309640@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Cohen: "Ada As A Second Language" - 05 Update? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.134.100.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr19.news.prodigy.net 1178242388 ST000 70.134.100.216 (Thu, 03 May 2007 21:33:08 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 21:33:08 EDT Organization: AT&T http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: F[OQB\CEBZUWSSD[N[O@_WH@YR_B@EXLLBWLOOAFMASJETAANVW[AKWZE\]^XQWIGNE_[EBL@^_\^JOCQ^RSNVLGTFTKHTXHHP[NB\_C@\SD@EP_[KCXX__AGDDEKGFNB\ZOKLRNCY_CGG[RHT_UN@C_BSY\G__IJIX_PLSA[CCFAULEY\FL\VLGANTQQ]FN Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 18:33:15 -0800 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15487 Date: 2007-05-03T18:33:15-08:00 List-Id: "Lucretia" wrote in message news:1178149620.087751.309640@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... > On Apr 27, 2:34 pm, PnkFlyd 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 1) Cohen's book is not really "out-of-date."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