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: 103376,19e983c5955f75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-04 17:00:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ACBB4DF.9F548825@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: Learning Ada (newbie) References: <9af9ao$6ee$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:57:19 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.83.38 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 986428718 147.24.83.38 (Wed, 04 Apr 2001 18:58:38 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 18:58:38 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6483 Date: 2001-04-04T16:57:19-07:00 List-Id: Ayende Rahien wrote: > > 1. Where can I learn Ada? Preferably a turial on the web. I'm currently > reading (http://www.adahome.com/Ammo/Cplpl2Ada.html) which presents some > very interesting concepts (the fine-grained variables, frex), but it doesn't > really teach much. I used to know Pascal (been several years since I program > in it), and I know C/C++ pretty well. So I don't really need an interduction > to programming, just to Ada itself. > 2. Can you recommend a good IDE for Ada? Preferably for Windows. > 3. I read in Jargon File that "hackers find Ada's exception handling & > inter-process communication particularly hilarious." among other stuff. Why > is that? What are the advantages & disadvantages of Ada compare to C or C++ > and other languages? > > Thanks in advance, > Ayende Rahien I would recommend you read "Ada Programming Essentials: Overview, Examples and Glossary". You can get it from http://www.LearnAda.com/ . You can read my short review of it (along with some other good Ada book reviews) at http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada95books.html . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------