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<article class="blog-post h-entry post-text"><header><h2 class="p-name entry-title blog-post-title"><a href="posts/2003/07/24/2003-07-24-ada-cohen/" class="u-url">Ada as a Second Language, Second Edition</a></h2>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">T. Kurt Bond</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/2003/07/24/2003-07-24-ada-cohen/" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2003-07-24T00:00:00-05:00" title="2003-07-24 00:00">2003-07-24 00:00</time></a></p>
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<p>I'm still working my way slowly through Cohen's <a class="reference external" href="posts/2003/07/09/2003-07-09/#cohen-ada95">Ada as a Second
Language, Second Edition</a>.
Ada takes a much more conservative approach to reliability
than any of the BCPL/C languages (including Java), and in some cases
more even than the Pascal/Modula/Oberon languages, so there are more
restrictions on how some things are treated. Looking carefully at the
language, I can understand the reasons for the restrictions, but
abiding by them takes more up-front planning than is promoted by the
BCPL/C languages. Is the additional effort worth the extra reliability
for general purpose applications programming? That's what I hope to
find out. It's easy to see, now that I'm back to using a language that
doesn't include garbage collection as part of the standard, how much
easier garbage collection makes interface design;
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.m3.org/">Modula-3</a> or Java have a definite advantage here.</p>
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<li><p><cite>The Anubis Slayings</cite>, by P.C. Doherty. This is the third in
Doherty's series of enjoyable mysteries set in ancient egypt during
the reign of Hatusu (or Hatshepsut) and featuring Amerotke, the chief
judge of Egypt. In this book Amerotke must deal with compilcations and
murder resulting from diplomatic negotions for a peace treaty with the
defeated ing Tushratta of Mitanni.</p></li>
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<li><p><cite>Blood and Fog</cite>, by Nancy Holder. This <a class="reference external" href="http://www.buffyguide.com/">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a> novel was mentioned briefly on a
newsgroup or mailing list I read (I can't remember which) and sounded
interesting (a Victorian Slayer and Jack the Ripper), so I when I saw
it at the library I checked it out. It was ok, but nothing special.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>Poets and Murder</cite>, a <a class="reference external" href="http://www.friesian.com/ross/dee.htm">Judge Dee</a> mystery by Robert van Gulik.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>Empire from the Ashes</cite>, by David Weber. This is an omnibus edition
of <cite>Mutineers' Moon</cite>, <cite>The Armageddon Inheritance</cite>, and <cite>Heirs of
Empire</cite>. Straightforward, well written military science fiction.</p></li>
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<section id="software-engineering-is-not-yet-engineering"><h2>Software Engineering is not (yet) Engineering</h2>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.swebok.org/">SWEBOK</a>, the IEEE Computer Society's Guide
to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, is available as a
public draft for trial. It is written to be the basis for licensing
software engineering professionals.</p>
<p>I do not think that "Software Engineering" is mature enough that it is
an actual engineering discipline, and I do not think that "Software
Engineers" should be licensed, although I would not be upset if
governments refuse to allow computer programmers to be called
"Software Engineers" because they aren't licensed engineers.</p>
<p>The ACM <a class="reference external" href="http://www.acm.org/serving/se_policy/">does not promote licensing of software engineers.</a></p>
<p>Cem Kaner's <a class="reference external" href="http://blackbox.cs.fit.edu/blog/kaner/archives/000056.html">thoughts</a> on
SWEBOK are interesting.</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt.php?cat=rock&id=be0b240e">The Best of Warren Zevon: A Quiet Normal Life</a>,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt.php?cat=rock&id=8609710a">Mr. Bad Example</a>,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt.php?cat=rock&id=8409cd0a">Transverse City</a>,</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt.php?cat=rock&id=9609040b">Warren Zevon</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p><cite>whites off earth now!!</cite>, <cite>the trinity session</cite>, <cite>the
caution horses</cite>, <cite>black eyed man</cite> by the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/">Cowbody Junkies</a>.</p></li>
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<p><cite>Ada as a Second Language, Second Edition</cite>, by Norman
Cohen.</p>
<p>Weighing in at three ounces heavier than <cite>The C++ Programming
Language</cite> by Bjarne Stroustrup, <cite>Ada as a Second Language</cite> seems to
be at least as complete for Ada 95 as Stroustrup's book was for
C++. It's definitely the book to have for a complete explanation of
Ada 95, and it's well written and clear.</p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/2003/07/03/2003-07-03-gtkada-reading/" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2003-07-03T00:00:00-05:00" title="2003-07-03 00:00">2003-07-03 00:00</time></a></p>
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<section id="gtkada"><h2>GtkAda</h2>
<p>The <a class="reference external" href="http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/">GtkAda</a> folks have
released a new version of GtkAda for Gtk+-2.2 and it includes an
easily installed binary release. It looks to me like the easiest way
to get started writing cross-platform Gtk+ programs is to install <a class="reference external" href="ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnat-3.15p-nt.exe">GNAT
3.15p</a>
and <a class="reference external" href="ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.15p/winnt/gnatwin-3.15p.exe">GNATWIN</a> then
install the new <a class="reference external" href="http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/gtkada-2.2.0.exe">GtkAda</a> release. Reasonably complete
examples are included in the distribution.</p>
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<ul class="simple" id="more-earthsea-tales">
<li><p><cite>The Other Wind</cite> and <cite>Tales from Earthsea</cite>, by Ursula K. LeGuin. I
was very glad to see that there were still <cite class="series">Earthsea</cite> tales that
LeGuin wanted to tell. Both of these books are quite good.</p></li>
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<p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.epiphyte.net/SF/college-of-magics.html">A College of Magics</a> by Caroline Stevermer. This is a very entertaining
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_country">Ruritanian</a>
fantasy in an alternate world with a touch of magic. I've enjoyed her
other works as well: <cite>The Serpent's Egg</cite>, <cite>When the King Comes Home</cite>,
and <cite>Sorcery and Cecelia</cite> (co-written with Patricia C. Wrede). I
haven't read <cite>River Rats</cite> yet, though.</p>
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<li><p><cite>The Haunted Monastery, a Chinese Detective Story</cite>, by Robert van
Gulik. An enjoyable <a class="reference external" href="http://www.friesian.com/ross/dee.htm">Judge Dee</a> mystery.</p></li>
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<li><p><cite>The Light Ages</cite> by Ian R. MacLeod. Well written and interesting, but
ultimately rather depressing.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>A Regimental Affair</cite> by Allan Mallinson.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>Slayer's Handbook</cite> for the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.btvsrpg.com/">Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying
Game</a>, from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.edenstudios.net/">Eden Studios</a>. Writers: C.J. Carella, Timothy S.
Brannon, David F. Chapman. Editors: M. Alexander Jurkat, David F.
Chapman. At 156 pages, this slick, color hardback is a little smaller
than I'd like to have seen, but it's well written and full of useful
ideas, especially for the Director who is looking for ideas for a new
Series. It has several good ideas for alternate Buffyverses.</p></li>
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<li><p>“Conversation Piece”, by David Bowie, from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt.php?cat=rock&id=c10d540d">Space Oddity.</a></p></li>
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<li><p><cite>Honorable Company</cite> by Allan Mallinson.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>The Haunted Monastery</cite> by Robert Hans Van Gulik. This is one of
Gulik's <a class="reference external" href="http://www.friesian.com/ross/dee.htm">Judge Dee</a>
mysteries, set in ancient China. Very good.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming</cite> by John English,
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/">online edition</a>. A
good introduction to Ada 95.</p></li>
</ul></section><section id="computing-ada"><h2>Computing: Ada</h2>
<p>I've been looking at <a class="reference external" href="http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/">GtkAda</a>,
an Ada binding for Gtk+. It's pretty complete, and is portable between
Unix and MS Windows, with a MacOS X version in the works. An
<a class="reference external" href="http://lists.act-europe.fr/pipermail/gtkada/2003-May/002223.html">explanation</a> of how to create
the environment for you'll need for using recent versions (Gtk+-2.2.x
based, from CVS) with recent versions of GCC under MS Windows is
<a class="reference external" href="http://lists.act-europe.fr/pipermail/gtkada/2003-May/002223.html">available</a>. (Update: a new
<a class="reference external" href="posts/2003/07/03/2003-07-03-gtkada-reading/">binary release</a> makes
things much simpler.)</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553380435/qid=1055508395/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-1186387-6855855?v=glance%26s=books">A Close Run Thing</a>, by Allan Mallinson. This novel of the British Cavalry
at Waterloo approaches its subject more in the manner of Patrick
O'Brian's <cite class="series">Aubrey and Maturin</cite> books than that of Bernard Cornwell's
<cite class="series">Richard Sharpe</cite> books, and is a welcome entry into the field for that
alone. I don't think Mallison pulls this off as well as O'Brian did,
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