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Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
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Am Dienstag, 3. Dezember 2019 05:05:27 UTC+1 schrieb Paul Rubin:
> This is not out yet, but it looks interesting and is due at the end of
> the month:
> 
>   https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781484254271
> 
> Is the author the same Andrew Shvets who posts here sometimes?

Yes, he is. I had a little conversation on the very first edition with him.
I esp. objected that he started his examples with using Integer rather than user-defined types (which IMHO is the very heart of Ada). I do not know whether he changed this.

The very first exercise in my basic Ada course was to find a type definition for a given problem: What is the range of values you expect to need? Just using Integer here is like cheating - i.e. refusal to think about the problem.

> Andrew if you're here, what does the book cover in terms of e.g. new Ada
> features, SPARK, etc.?
> 
> It's great that new books are coming out about Ada.

Anyway, it's favorable that there is another Ada book out there now that is up to date.