[net.lang.ada] Good Ada Ref for Professional?

heliotis (04/19/83)

Can anyone out there suggest a good summary of the Ada programming language?
I do NOT want to be able to write programs in it, I simply want to be able
to understand its concepts, syntax, and semantics, so that I may competently
discuss aspects of it with other computer professionals.

                                                Jim Heliotis
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bruce (04/26/83)

	This article is in response to Jim Heliotis' request for reading
material on Ada.  The following is a list of books and journals which I
have found that pertain to the Ada Programming Language.  The list is in
ascending order of the amount of crap to read :

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	Title: "Programming in Ada: An Introduction by Means of Graduated
	       Examples"

	Author: Peter Wegner

	Publisher: Prentice - Hall, Inc.

	Date of Publication: 1980

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	Title: "Ada Reference Manual"

	Author: Henry Ledgard

	Publisher: Springer-Verlay, Inc.

	Date of Publication: 1980

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	The final document I have found on Ada appears in the June 1979
issue of "SIGPLAN Notices" (Vol. 14 No. 6 Parts A & B). This journal is
published by the ACM's Special Interest Group on Progamming Languages.

				Bruce Keats
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