Acknowledgements.

The author would like to thank the following people:

Tucker Taft (Intermetrics) for the initial idea for a WWW page and constant help since. Magnus Kempe (EPFL) for maintaining the Home of the Brave Ada Programmers WWW site and checking my initial WWW pages. Michael Bartz (University of Memphis), David Wheeler (IDA), Kevin Nash (Bournemouth University), Laurent Guerby (student at Telecom Bretagne) and Bill Wagner (Hazeltine) for comments on the WWW pages. Jono Powell (ICL) comments on the WWW page and proof reading early work on the book. Finally Keith Burton (ICL) for his honest and constructive comments on the first draft.

Mike Feldman (GWU) for comments, encouragement, guidance and the initial contact with Addison Wesley. LabTek for the Windows-NT version of GNAT used to develop the code in this book and Tom Griest in particular for fielding my queries and gripes. Mitch Gart (Intermetrics) for the Ada95 binding to the Win32 API used in the example. The compiler vendor Aonix also provided a Windows-NT compiler for me to develop my code with (ObjectAda 7.0) and to David Wood, who organised it, my thanks.

Kit Lester (University of Portsmouth) for teaching me Ada in the first place, and as one of those who inspired me to enjoy what I do.

Finally the people at Addison Wesley, Simon Plumtree, Fiona Kinnear and specifically Sally Mortimore.


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