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From: John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>
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On Jun 30, 2:01=A0pm, ryan k <r...@ryankaskel.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to learn Ada because a) I think it's cool to learn new
> computer languages and b) it looks like a good one. I've gone the
> through a lot of the tutorials but lets say have package MyPackage and
> 5 subprograms are in the body. Which procedure is run first? Is it
> sequential? Is there some sort of equivalent to C's main()? Is a
> binary created for every package? I guess I don't understand where
> things start and end. Any help or links are greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan Kaskel


I suggest checking out some of the textbooks available.  There is a
good listing of Ada textbooks at the Ada IC.

http://www.adaic.org/learn/textbook.html

I'm partial, but I think that the Ada Plus Data Structures by Dale,
Weems, and McCormick answers your questions best.

John