From: Steve Whalen <swhalen@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Ada book help
Date: 1999/01/23
Date: 1999-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <swhalenF60DqH.ELD@netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3vhhya4w1.fsf@mheaney.ni.net
Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
[snip]
: As a first book, I think John Barnes' Programming in Ada95, 2nd ed is
: very good. It broadly covers that language, providing what I think is
: just the right amount of detail.
[snip]
Out of curiosity, have you read the reviews of this book on Amazon.com?
Do you think they are inaccurate? Unfair? (4 out of 5 trash it).
I'm curious, because I like to keep a list of books to recommend to
people around to encourage interest in Ada95 whenever I encounter
it, but want to be sure that I don't discourage someone by starting
them off with a bad book (and have them turn their disappointment
in the book, in to a dislike for Ada95).
Most of the other Amazon.com review consensus's (?sp?) for Ada book's
agree with my take on the book, where I have the book to compare.
I don't have the Barnes' book to look at, and while I'm not the
"language lawyer" others on comp.lang.ada are, I've used Pascal
and Ada for too many years to be able to look at a book from
the perspective of a programmer who's never used / succeeded with
a strongly typed language before.
Steve
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Ada book help Richard
1999-01-22 0:00 ` westonpa
1999-01-22 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-01-23 0:00 ` JoeLngstn
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen [this message]
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Alexy Khrabrov
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Alexy Khrabrov
1999-01-26 0:00 ` John Barnes' book reviews at Amazon (was Re: Ada book help) Pat Rogers
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Ada book help Stephane Barbey
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Ada book help (on Amazon.com) Steve Whalen
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Ada book help Magnus Kempe
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Richard
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Jeff Iverson
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