Michael Pickett wrote: << My sister-in-law has just returned from a business trip to the USA. She tells me she took a taxi in Washington, and was surprised to find an Ada textbook on the seat. (She didn't say which one. Sorry, chaps, but she's a biologist, not a software engineer.) She pointed it out to the driver who confessed that he was learning Ada in his spare time, and what a wonderful language it is.>> If you turn to pages 864-866 of Ada as a Second Language, you'll see why I have no doubt about which Ada textbook the taxi driver was reading. :-)