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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e486c4cecbbc6a4a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steve Whalen Subject: Re: Ada book help Date: 1999/01/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435953968 Sender: swhalen@netcom2.netcom.com References: <36A8FC33.3B4BA48A@virgin.net> Organization: ? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney 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 -- {===--------------------------------------------------------------===} Steve Whalen swhalen@netcom.com {===--------------------------------------------------------------===}