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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, HK_RANDOM_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cf86c450b827479,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-12 07:48:13 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!freenix!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!fu-berlin.de!nntp.infostrada.it!news.infostrada.it!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AD5CDDD.8E028CB4@libero.it> From: GianLuigi Piacentini X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:45:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.24.11.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@libero.it X-Trace: news.infostrada.it 987086728 151.24.11.49 (Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:45:28 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:45:28 MET DST Organization: [Infostrada] Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6816 Date: 2001-04-12T14:45:28+00:00 List-Id: I'm a Fortran9x programmer, with some experience/exposure to C, too. I would like to learn Ada, and use it to program PC (under Win 95/98/NT4/2000) and industrial PC under DOS, for automation applications. I foresee the need to do some Windows programming, and also to send/receive characters via the serial port. I understand that at some time I should upgrade to a commercial compiler, but I would like to show Ada's capabilities, so I could justify an Ada compiler versus a C or VB compiler. Do you have any suggestion, pointers to book, on-line tutorials and so on ? Apologizing for my english, Many thanks in advance Gigi Piacentini