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Hi,

Ada basically forces you to think about your data, the way other languages should, but don't. Data has ranges of allowable values and the compiler will enforce their use.

Take a look at John English's AdaCraft http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/docs/craft/html/contents.htm - wasn't he supposed to be updating this to Ada 2012?

Then use the various standards (don't bother with the annotated ones yet), http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/standards to learn Ada 2005 and 2012 extensions to Ada95.