[GAP] Ada 2005 API

[Ed Falis]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:37:42 -0500, John McCormick <mccormick at cs.uni.edu>  
wrote:

> Ned
>
> Your description is exactly what I hear from my students.  While us
> old folks are competent at searching paper documentation (or paper
> documentation in electronic form) our students are not.
>
> Their search skills are derived from the web.  The Java standard
> library you referenced is the gold standard for my students.  It is
> very difficult for me to convince my students to search the
> ARM.   The disadvantages of textbooks like John Barnes' and my own is
> that they don't cover all of the operations available in the
> annexes.  And while we can complain all we like, students tend to
> avoid reading the textbooks to find the answers.
>
> Perhaps designing an online document for Ada such as exists for Java
> could be a nice student project.
>
> John

This is starting to remind me of Gabriel's "Worse is Better" paper.