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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9982360189bfe852 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-26 07:45:09 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A7194DE.D3455A76@west.raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@west.raytheon.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Which book for ADA beginner ? References: <3A71400E.32057C6B@becker.k.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:16:46 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.131.12 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 980522310 147.24.131.12 (Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:18:30 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:18:30 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4557 Date: 2001-01-26T08:16:46-07:00 List-Id: arek wrote: > > Hello there > > Would you recommend a good book for learning ADA. > Is a book "ADA - An Advanced Introduction Including Reference Manual for > the Ada Programming Language" (by Narain Gehani) good for this purpose ? > > Regards > Arek If you look at the SigAda site - http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigada/education/ in the 'Books on Ada' link you will find reviews of most of the available Ada books. I just recently posted a review there on an outstanding book on Ada for people with some programming background called "Ada Essentials: Overview, Examples and Glossary". It is small and concise and also quite inexpensive and available in either printed or electronic format. The book you referenced is a very good book but it was written back around 1989 and covers Ada 83 only. Also check out Barnes' "Programming in Ada 95", 2nd edition. I have also reviewed it on Amazon.com. Highly recommended! Good Luck, Jerry -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation, Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply -----------------------------------------------------------------------------