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John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> writes:

> Marin David Condic wrote:
> > For OOP in Ada, I rather liked the book "Object Oriented Software In Ada95"
> > by Michael A. Smith. However, there are a number of other books on the
> > subject...
> 
> Not any more; as far as publishers are concerned, OOP means "out of
> print" when applied to Ada :-(
> 
> Mike's book is now OOP, as is mine. We are now having to consider
> teaching another language at Brighton because of the lack of suitable
> textbooks for beginners. The publishers aren't interested because the
> market's too small. And various sections of industry are complaining
> that they can't find enough trained Ada developers, so they're being
> forced to move to Java or C++.

Just going out on a limb here - 

Are paper textbooks really still necessary? Wouldn't a PDF file
downloaded to the student's computer serve? 

It seems to me anyone taking an Ada course will have good access to a
computer capable of displaying PDF files. I know I _much_ prefer
online documentation to paper books!

-- 
-- Stephe