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From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming?
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David Wright:

> 1) A free (preferably) downloadable programming environment that is installs
> without fuss and instability

Download GNAT and AdaGIDE, install them (clicking Yes and OK several times)
and it works.
  http://libre.act-europe.fr/GNAT/
  http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/adagide.html

> 2) Good online and hardcopy support (tutorials and textbooks) for a BEGINNER
> PROGRAMMER per se, not just beginners with that LANGUAGE

The Briefest Introduction to Ada
  http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall98/G22.2130-001/adaintro.html
Quick Ada tutorial
  http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dale/ada/aln.html
Lovelace
  http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.html

Books: http://www.AdaPower.com/

> 3) An online community that has a tradition of supporting such beginners to
> programming.

:-)

If you have TP7 under hand it is a very good start for a few months.
But:
  - AdaGIDE is now globally an much easier environment than TP7
  - some of the Borland extensions to Pascal are very unhappy,
    don't get trapped in that dialect; on the other hand Ada has
    certainly the lowest dialect problematic among the language fauna.

HTH
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