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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea19776e3073a96 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator. Date: 2000/03/30 Message-ID: <38E2B446.C9A4D1@research.canon.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604126502 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38e148e2.5089627@news.shreve.net> <38e19656.17008608@news.shreve.net> <8bs49i$baq1@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@research.canon.com.au X-Trace: cass.research.canon.com.au 954381354 7908 203.12.174.227 (30 Mar 2000 01:55:54 GMT) Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Mar 2000 01:55:54 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-30T01:55:54+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Besides, I *agree* that the RM95 is head-hurting reading. The goal of a > standard (IMHO) is uniformity across implementations, and that (sadly) > seems to require unreadable prose. It's *not* that bad. > Anyway, as several people have pointed out, the original poster should > put the RM95 away for now, and read a textbook first. IMO, this is bad advice for an experienced programmer. The RM is a valuable means of clarifying concepts that may be unclear in a textbook. BTW I read the RM and did an online tutorial. Once I was hooked, I then bought a couple of books. My guess is that "C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance" is not going to part with too many $$$ on books until he is fairly sure that he is going to get some use out of them. Cheers Geoff