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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:15:57 +0200
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On 04.09.13 11:14, e.s.harney@gmail.com wrote:
> I did look on Amazon about available books, but all of them seem fairly dated. "Programming in Ada 2005" by John Barnes did look interesting judging by the reviews, yet I'm not sure of how helpful it will be in covering all details that are relevant to writing useful software these days (things like utf8, interfacing with C, etc.).

A distilled introduction for programmers is

http://www.adaic.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Ada-Distilled-24-January-2011-Ada-2005-Version.pdf

Barnes' book covers a lot; it needs the reader to work with it.

More links here:

http://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/