From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5468df70e82939f4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.77.101 with SMTP id r5mr191735paw.27.1344556368615; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Path: c10ni100292pbw.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Dufr Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Free learning resources for Ada (are they good enough?) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1a4752e6-1474-4163-9863-817b00aba559@googlegroups.com> References: <6d05c25a-7273-47ad-b4b0-8011366c2a62@googlegroups.com> <5023bc51$0$9522$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.230.82.82 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1344556368 26152 127.0.0.1 (9 Aug 2012 23:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 23:52:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2.230.82.82; posting-account=GfZx5woAAADTB-o-XOdlp4UQ5ID5xKzF User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-08-09T16:45:17-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, August 9, 2012 9:39:01 PM UTC+2, Patrick wrote: > Also try adacraft, it's free online too. I assume you are referring to John English's book. The latest version of th= is book I was able to find online is updated only to Ada 95. Is there a mor= e recent version? Incidentally, this brings up an important question: would a beginner (start= ing today) be likely to later find himself at a disadvantage if he learns t= he language from an Ada 95 / 2005 tutorial (instead of the latest 2012 stan= dard)? I am assuming here (as in my case) that the beginner's interest focu= ses mostly (almost exclusively) on the language's core commands/structures = (no advanced features like concurrency, etc are needed).=20 In other words, have the basic features of the language (syntax, etc) chang= ed a lot across versions? Regards, Dufr