Ada Distilled -- Announcement

[Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>]

David Botton has recently posted a PDF version of my little
book, Ada Distilled, on the adapower web site.

Ada Distilled is intended as a quick start entry into Ada for
programmers who already know some other language.  It is
not as comprehensive as the excellent book by Norm Cohen,
but many of my students, in industry and in graduate school,
have found it to be a good supplement to learning Ada.

Anyone who wants to use this book for whatever purposes,
commercial training, university education, or whatever, is
welcome to download it and reprint it, as long as they include
the credits given within the book to the author and other
contributors.

I update the book from time using input and feedback from those
who have been using it.  I welcome any comments anyone might
have.  Ultimately, I hope it will be a useful book for a wider
audience.

It is my intention to keep the book to around 100 pages.  Each time
I add something, I find it necessary to rearrange other material. There
is a little deliberate redundancy here and there, so I know I can add
new material now and then without turning it into a heavyweight
volume.

Some of the programs and examples are in color.   If you print it with
a color printer, you will find that helpful.   It includes an annotated
version
of Ada.Text_IO.   I plan to continue to annotate some of the Ada library

packages with each revision of the book.

Hope it is helpful to some of you.

Best regards,

Richard Riehle