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Ada95 Book, Now Free Online

Posted by timothy on from the while-supplies-last dept.

zmower writes: "John English has just put his out-of-print "Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming" online at http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ I've read this and a few other Ada books. This was a good read and definitely the best introduction to Ada book."

5 of 13 comments (clear)

  1. fine book by sahasamrat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this is one of the best books i have read on ada go for it

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    sam
    1. Re:fine book by heliocentric · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The only one I have dealt with is

      Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design (3rd Ed.) by Feldman and Koffman

      And those of you out there who are thinking of reading that linked book and are looking to get ada for your system:

      http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/adagide .html
      This site is the AdaGIDE homepage and contains information on AdaGIDE only (my links to GNAT don't seem valid any longer).

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      Wheeeee
  2. This is front page material. by L3WKW4RM · · Score: 5, Informative

    This ought to be on the front page. This is an excellent book, I wish it'd encourage more people to start writing some beautiful Ada code. It's a shame so many open source projects are done in C/C++ when Ada lends itself so well to large projects.

    You can get the free (and awesome) Gnat Ada compiler here:

    ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat

    Read up and start writing some great code!

  3. Good for Ada by zmower · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's now a wealth of Ada documentation online but most of it is quite dry. This book will be a great boon for Ada in general; not only is it free, it's darn good too! Big Thanks to John.

    If anyones interested in Ada, I recommend GtkAda, Booch Components, XML/Ada and of course the GNAT Ada compiler from those nice people at ACT.

    Now, if I ever get round to writting that C++ header file to Ada binding tool we'll be all set to... take over the world. ;-)

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    Sig pending!
  4. Nope (was:yep) by T.E.D. · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The Ada "mandate" has been dead for at least 5 years now, so that is definitely not it.

    The reason so many military contracts still use Ada is the same reason so many safety-critical projects (avionics, air traffic control, train control, nuclear plant control) use it: its the safest and least error-prone language yet devised.

    The reason a lot of universities use it falls from the same logic. If students aren't wasting all their time chasing down bugs in their simple programs, you can teach them (and have them implement) much more advanced concepts.