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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-06 01:42:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: john@nospam.demon.co.uk (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada a good choice for an ambitious beginner to programming Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:43:38 GMT Message-ID: <3e194f5e.2022207@news.demon.co.uk> References: <5ad0dd8a.0212210251.63b87aba@posting.google.com> <3e140e05.3654845@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1041846153 14552 158.152.226.81 (6 Jan 2003 09:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:42:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32605 Date: 2003-01-06T09:43:38+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:18:35 +1000, "David Wright" wrote: >I've downloaded the Aonix Object Ada IDE, which seems >very cool on first impression. I haven't looked at its >graphics potential yet, but I imagine I can do some >interesting graphical things with this software. It >has, among its online helpfile texts, a complete >version of the famous "Ada 95 Problem Solving and >Program Design" M. B. Feldman and E. B. Koffman. So >there is much to be getting on with. As long as it's not a project-size limited version of ObjectAda you should be fine. I used that a while back and one of the guys I worked with did quite nice torpedo simulation using the OpenGL libraries through ObjectAda. Best Regards John McCabe To reply by email replace 'nospam' with 'assen'