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From: pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: News
Summary: Assembly line books
Message-ID: <10128@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 89 17:47:54 GMT
References: <12548449457.8.CAROZZONI@TOPS20.RADC.AF.MIL>
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <12548449457.8.CAROZZONI@TOPS20.RADC.AF.MIL>, CAROZZONI@TOPS20.RADC.AF.MIL writes:
> If imitation is the purest form of flattery, then one should
> appreciate Narain Gehani's (AT&T) new book, "An Advanced
> Introduction to C".  A chapter is devoted to Concurrent C. It
> appears that they have adopted the Ada rendezvous concept along
> with the Ada identifiers / keywords (select, accept, terminate,
> delay, etc).
> -------

This author tends to pump out all sorts of books, and lots of variations on
the ones already published.  He wrote a book called Ada: Concurrent
Programming, and I expect to make writing the C book easier, just made C look
like Ada so he could transliterate the Ada book to a C book.