Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada?

[Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> How about others? Were you a hobbyist when you learned Ada? Did many
> people attend formal training?

I started learning Ada (83) at university attending a short 2-day
course in preparation for a software project. Our introductory language
was Modula 2, so the step to Ada was comparatively small for the basic
language features. I used Ada for all subsequent software projects
during university, last project with Ada 95, but basically only using
Unbounded_String from the 95 "new feature set" ;-)

The diploma thesis was in C++ however, reinforcing my view that
Ada was the way to go.

When I decided to write a CD mastering software for RISC OS,
fortunately a GNAT port was available, so I implemented it
in Ada 95. This was the time when I read many Ada books
(Cohen, Barnes, Feldman) to get to grips with tagged types,
child packages etc.

Unfortunately, my daytime job is Java programming since
I didn't find a suitable "Ada" job when leaving university.

So when my brain needs a garbage collection from all the
Java stuff, I'm going back to my CD mastering software (actually,
it is now a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray mastering software) and enjoy
some Ada.

Steffen

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Steffen Huber
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