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Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
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On Tuesday, 3 December 2019 12:11:11 UTC, AdaMagica  wrote:
> 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.

There's nothing wrong with using integer to start off and then moving onto defined types.