Re: Ada 2005 Books (again probably!)

[John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk.nospam>]

John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk.nospam> wrote:

>Hi All
>
>Now that Burns/Wellings book has been out for a little while, can
>anyone suggest which would be the better book for someone who has used
>Ada a lot in the past (83 and 95) and wants to know more about using
>Ada 2005 in the real world? The title of Burns/Wellings books suggests
>that it might be best for me, as I develop embedded, concurrent
>real-time systems (currently in C++), but I wonder how much is
>specific to the changes involved in Ada 2005. Previously my favourite
>Ada book was Cohen's Ada As A Second Language.

Dear All

Thanks for your comments. A colleague has ordered the Barnes book, so
I'm going to go with the Burns/Wellings one and then we'll probably
swap :-)

That's the first time I've ever managed to directly persuade someone
that Ada is worth looking at. Funnily enough the fact that he's been
using VHDL for a while now contributed to it as he can understand the
advantages of strong typing and so on.

John