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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b2d36a382ccbeb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Stefan Bellon Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada? Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:36:53 +0200 Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: <20080604203653.4bbfa66e@cube.tz.axivion.com> References: <2ee634c3-0dee-4f02-8b02-c4804efd068f@x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <69ea5144-0c58-4a16-91fb-6eefa34646bb@w8g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <4843C58D.6080603@gmail.com> <4843e82c$0$27444$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <6angv8F38h0e7U1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de 1212604597 29738 129.69.226.26 (4 Jun 2008 18:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:36:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-URL: http://www.axivion.com/ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:571 Date: 2008-06-04T20:36:53+02:00 List-Id: On Wed, 04 Jun, Steffen Huber wrote: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > > How about others? Were you a hobbyist when you learned Ada? Did many > > people attend formal training? >=20 > I started learning Ada (83) at university attending a short 2-day > course in preparation for a software project. Our introductory > language was Modula 2, so the step to Ada was comparatively small for > the basic language features. I used Ada for all subsequent software > projects during university, last project with Ada 95, but basically > only using Unbounded_String from the 95 "new feature set" ;-) >=20 > The diploma thesis was in C++ however, reinforcing my view that > Ada was the way to go. My background is similar to Steffen's in a way that I studied at the same place (and thus same prof, Erhard Pl=C3=B6dereder) than Steffen, just a few years later, so I already started with Ada 95. Diploma thesis was in C++ as well, which made me wish I had used Ada, too. But I needed GUI and database bindings which made me look at Qt because at that time GtkAda and GNADE were no real alternatives, I'm afraid. > When I decided to write a CD mastering software for RISC OS, [...] Steffen, you should have written "*the* CD mastering software for RISC OS". ;-) > Unfortunately, my daytime job is Java programming since > I didn't find a suitable "Ada" job when leaving university. After finishing university I joined staff of the Department of Programming Languages at University of Stuttgart where Erhard Pl=C3=B6dereder is professor. There I was working on the Bauhaus project which is implemented in Ada 95 to a large extent. The spin-off Axivion is now providing solutions for stopping Software Erosion which are implemented in Ada 95/2005 and based on the work at university. So, my daytime job luckily involves programming in Ada. :-) --=20 Stefan Bellon