From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9cccf6ef6149fdaa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Magnus Alexandersson Subject: Re: Ada Date: 2000/01/13 Message-ID: <387DE7E7.8BB2AE64@mtek.chalmers.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572117254 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38620350.48F8FC08@gecm.com> <386216c3.172629337@news.draper.com> <38690E47.7DBDC2D1@quadruscorp.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@chalmers.se X-Trace: nyheter.chalmers.se 947775434 18222 129.16.200.67 (13 Jan 2000 14:57:14 GMT) Organization: Chalmers University of Technology Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jan 2000 14:57:14 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-13T14:57:14+00:00 List-Id: "Marin D. Condic" wrote: > Definitely. I was recently at a big electronics store in San Jose and > looked through their stacks of books relating to programming & > languages. Hundreds of books available on C, C++, Perl, Cobol, etc. Not > a single text on Ada, even though many good ones exist. My school is dropping Ada for Java since the Ada books are hiedously expensive here in Sweden and Javabooks come by the tenfold... Reality bites, huh? - ///Magnus http://www.mdtsud.chalmers.se/~md8maal