Re: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada

["Samuel T. Harris" <u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com>]

GianLuigi Piacentini wrote:
> 
> 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

I once wrote a FORTRAN to Ada translator to facilitate
the porting of some code for a work project several
years ago. My effort got up to the verification testing
stage and then was dropped. A lot of untested functionality
there.

If anyone is interested, I will entertain the notion
of picking it up again.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"