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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: New edition of John Barnes' classic book
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 02:13:52 -0500
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I have John's 2005 Ada book. I like the book, except I wish
his examples where self contained such that they include
everything needed to copy and compile them. He likes
to make the examples short and only show the point, which
is fine, but I think making each example self contained
(i.e. including the program main and any packages used) is
better as it allows one to try the example more easily.

Sure this will make the book larger since each example
will be larger now, but may be using a little smaller
font and less white space on the sides of the pages would
help.

I do not know if this changed in his 2012 book.

--Nasser