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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cf86c450b827479 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-13 08:42:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!titan03.ksc.nasa.gov!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!usenet From: "Samuel T. Harris" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:32:08 -0500 Organization: Raytheon Aerospace Engineering Services Message-ID: <3AD71BF8.D4283EE5@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> References: <3AD5CDDD.8E028CB4@libero.it> Reply-To: samuel_t_harris@raytheon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sstf-fw.jsc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.2 IP19) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6861 Date: 2001-04-13T10:32:08-05:00 List-Id: 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!"