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From: pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)
Subject: Re: Repost of the Reid Report #12; CS1 languages
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In article <dewar.805640507@gnat> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>"> Finally, another measure of the health of a language in CS1 is the
>> number of new textbooks that are coming out. I have not seen a
>> proposal for a new Ada book, while I know of multiple CS1 in C++
>> books that are in the works."
>
>a number of new Ada 95 books are in various stages from proposals to
>review to nearly published. I am not sure why you think you would
>necesarily se proposals for new Ada books, unless you are a representative
>of a publisher, and even then you would see only one very narrow segment
>of the market, which presumably you would influence. Relatively few
>proposals for books are out of the blue!
>

I review CS1 textbooks for a variety of publishers. I reviewed or had
advanced notice of the first crop of Ada in CS1 textbooks (Bover, Cutwin,
Dale, DeLillo, Feldman, Savitch, Smith - but not Cooling, Skansholm). I
am aware of NO new CS1 in Ada books (except for revisions). Again, let
me emphasize I am talking about CS1; not CS2, not "Ada as a Second Langauge"
books, and not new editions.

-- 
  Richard E. Pattis                  "When debugging, a novice programmer
  Looking for a Job		      inserts corrective code; an
			              experienced programmer removes
			              defective code." 
