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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Learning Ada83
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:55:30 +0100
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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