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From: hasan@ut-emx.uucp (David A. Hasan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Algol68
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Date: 25 Mar 91 16:34:44 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.013748.4944@ico.isc.com> <46036@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Mar25.132527.5570@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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[ in response to an observation I made about the similarities
  between learning Ada and a previous poster's
  observations about Algol 68 ]

In article <1991Mar25.132527.5570@ecst.csuchico.edu> rreid@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ralph Reid III) writes:

>Maybe one of the following books can help:

>Software Components with ADA
>by Grady Booch
>Benjamin/Cummings Publishing
>(contains sample source code)

>Ada As A Second Language
>by Norm Cohen
>McGraw Hill publishing

Agreed.  In fact that is precisely how I get along.  However,
Booch's book is organized by components, and it is very
difficult to get specific Ada information out of it without
working through the whole thing.  That is *not* to diminish
it's value (IMHO it's an excellent text), but it makes using
it as a _reference_ hard.  Cohen's book is voluminous and in
fact the one I find most useful most of the time, especially
since it is easy to use as a topical reference.

Nevertheless, there come certain situations where the two
compilers I use (DEC and Miiieridian-for-the-Mac) behave
differently, and I then use the LRM to figure out where the
*real* truth lies.  (If I can find it!)


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