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From: (see below) on 24 Apr 2008 09:31 On 24/04/2008 08:34, in article 1vd014d7cf422e2atchlnhg1h3acued2it(a)4ax.com, "John McCabe" <john(a)nospam.assen.demon.co.uk.nospam> wrote: > "(see below)" <yaldnif.w(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 23/04/2008 14:25, in article fundco$dng$2(a)infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de, >> "Peter Hermann" <ica2ph(a)lucky.ihr.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: >> >>> John McCabe <john(a)nospam.assen.demon.co.uk.nospam> wrote: >>>> Now that Burns/Wellings book has been out for a little while, can >>> >>> >>> out ? >> >> "out" = "published" > > Is that a Scottish thing then? Thanks for the translation Bill :-) Not according to the MacOS X Dictionary: > adjective [ predic. ] > 1 not at home or at one's place of work : if he called, she'd pretend to be > out. > 2 revealed or made public : the secret was soon out. > � (of a flower) in bloom; open. > � published : the book should be out before the end of the month. > � informal in existence or in use : it works as well as any system that's out. > � not concealing one's homosexuality : I had been out since I was seventeen. > 3 no longer alight; extingished : the fire was nearly out. > 4 at an end : school was out for the summer. > � informal no longer in fashion : life in the fast lane is out. > 5 not possible or worth considering : a trip to the seaside is out. > 6 in a state of unconsciousness. > � Boxing unable to rise before the count of ten. > 7 mistaken; in error : he was slightly out in his calculations. > 8 (of the ball in tennis and similar games) outside the designated playing > area. > 9 Baseball & Cricket no longer batting or on base, having had one's turn ended > by the team in the field : the Yankees are out in the ninth | Johnson was out > at second. -- Bill Findlay <surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk
From: Per Sandberg on 24 Apr 2008 11:30
Have already hacked most of it under the name space rt_tools is there any interest? /Per Anh Vo wrote: > On Apr 23, 6:36 am, "Ed Falis" <fa...(a)verizon.net> wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:25:44 -0400, Peter Hermann >> >> <ica...(a)lucky.ihr.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: >>> John McCabe <j...(a)nospam.assen.demon.co.uk.nospam> wrote: >>>> Now that Burns/Wellings book has been out for a little while, can >>> out ? >>> Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada see: >>> http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521866972 >> I think "out" meant "available" in this context. ;-) >> >> The Burns/Welling book really is excellent on concurrency and RT >> programming, and worth owning. I'd probably still go with the J. Barnes >> book to look into other Ada 05 changes. Figure you'll scan for what you >> want, rather than read it cover to cover. > > I owned both of these books (Programming in Ada 2005 by John Barnes > and Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada by Alan Burns and Andy > Wellings). Of course, I have not read every thing but I did read every > thing about Ada 2005 specially in the area of OOP and concurrency > combination. I am in the process of reading them the second time and > test them out with real codes. I am thinking of writing concurrency > utilities (components) as suggested by Alan Burns. I would suggest > that you look at these books. > > AV |