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"John McCabe" <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk.nospam> wrote in message 
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> 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.

If you liked Cohen, you'll like Programming in Ada 2005 by John Barnes.  The 
style is similar:  Maybe a bit less terse, but for me a bit more readable.