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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Learning Ada83
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:55:30 +0100
Date: 2004-09-02T15:55:30+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4137325a$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ecf9a1d1.0409020623.1ed8845a@posting.google.com

Jim Gurtner wrote:
> I am a Computer Engineering student and am teaching myself Ada95 using
> the book "Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming" by John
> English.
>
> I would like to be able to get a job in the defense industry when I
> graduate.  Should I get a book on Ada83 and study it also?  Or does
> studying Ada95 make one automatically fluent in Ada83?
>
> Thanks in advance!

I wouldn't bother - most new defence work (at least the stuff I'm doing) is
going throuh Ada95 compilers and a lot of legacy stuff is being ported.
There
is a 'porting guide' available (just google for it).

Cheers

-- Martin






  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-02 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-02 14:23 Learning Ada83 Jim Gurtner
2004-09-02 14:55 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-09-02 23:13 ` Nick Roberts
2004-09-03 15:38   ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-03 16:42     ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-03 17:57       ` Advanced scripting languages (was: Learning Ada83) Björn Persson
2004-09-03 23:47         ` Randy Brukardt
2004-09-05  3:28           ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-08  0:07             ` Randy Brukardt
2004-09-08 13:38               ` Ken O. Burtch
2004-09-06  2:42 ` Learning Ada83 Jim Gurtner
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