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: 103376,5792b10b2356770c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: John McCabe Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2005 Books (again probably!) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:38:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1209022694 8384 80.176.146.77 (24 Apr 2008 07:38:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:38:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21070 Date: 2008-04-24T08:38:07+01:00 List-Id: John McCabe 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