Software Engineering with ADA (3rd Edition)

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Summary: Good basic introduction to the topic.
Review: I found it readable and useful

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Summary: I Couldn't Put It Down... Quickly Enough
Review: Note: Amazon doesn't allow ratings lower than 1 star.

I think I had the original of this book. I use the word "had", as I burnt it - the one positive contribution it made to my life was fifteen minutes of warmth. This edition's apologist tones on behalf of the Ada fraud were not only misleading to someone searching for better software engineering tools, but insulting to those who knew the awful truth and had to wrestle with it every day.

Booch knows *lots* about software engineering, but he sure didn't know s**t from shinola about progamming languages when he wrote this book. Either that or he was under contract by DoD to uncritically write it. Some especially noxious parts of the book look like they were lifted straight from the DoD LRM.

Of course everything may have been remedied with the 3rd edition and Ada 9x. Oh, and diamonds may come from my bum.

Rating:
Summary: I Couldn't Put It Down... Quickly Enough
Review: Note: Amazon doesn't allow ratings lower than 1 star.

I think I had the original of this book. I use the word "had", as I burnt it - the one positive contribution it made to my life was fifteen minutes of warmth. This edition's apologist tones on behalf of the Ada fraud were not only misleading to someone searching for better software engineering tools, but insulting to those who knew the awful truth and had to wrestle with it every day.

Booch knows *lots* about software engineering, but he sure didn't know s**t from shinola about progamming languages when he wrote this book. Either that or he was under contract by DoD to uncritically write it. Some especially noxious parts of the book look like they were lifted straight from the DoD LRM.

Of course everything may have been remedied with the 3rd edition and Ada 9x. Oh, and diamonds may come from my bum.