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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cb665c6c98eabf5d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: wheeler@aphrodite (David Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ada for C programmers Date: 1996/12/23 Message-ID: <59mjac$509@news.ida.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 205633398 references: organization: IDA, Alexandria, Virginia reply-to: dwheeler@ida.org newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Rich Maggio (maggior@world2u.com) wrote: : When C++ became "all the rage", there came many books targeted to the : C programmer that was moving to C++ and OO thinking. Wouldn't one for : Ada be useful? : : I am not saying that C better than Ada or anything, but the fact of : the matter is that there are LOTS of seasoned C programmers out : there. If the idea is to try to "convert" as many C programmers over : to Ada as possible, wouldn't such a guide/book be valuable to the "Ada : cause"? Is there such a book? Has anyone contemplated putting such a : book/document together? : : If such a book existed, it would have made my life much easier. I am : not suggesting that it should be a translation manual, but more of a : philosophical book. I found that I had to make some fundamental : changes about how I looked at a problem in order to solve it with good : Ada code. My "Lovelace" tutorial actually has this kind of orientation. It assumes that the reader already knows another language, most likely C, C++, or Pascal. Lovelace specifically uses C, C++, and Pascal examples to help the reader understand areas where they are similar. Lovelace information is at: "http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.htm".