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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.99.147.5 with SMTP id b5mr31097647pge.93.1483194851388; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 06:34:11 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.42.16 with SMTP id t16mr1566143ota.18.1483194851347; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 06:34:11 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!b123no5242662itb.0!news-out.google.com!u18ni14823ita.0!nntp.google.com!b123no5242652itb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 06:34:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:c7d:3cda:7600:932b:b705:6315:5a80; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:c7d:3cda:7600:932b:b705:6315:5a80 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <701a35ed-2282-4587-be8a-a2b5a99c8f43@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Introductory Ada Programming Book From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:34:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32977 Date: 2016-12-31T06:34:10-08:00 List-Id: On Saturday, 31 December 2016 13:18:08 UTC, Andrew Shvets wrote: > Hello, >=20 > My name is Andrew Shvets. I've been learning how to program in Ada over = the past few years. As someone that came from C/C++, Java and Python many = of the concepts that were in Ada were not easy to digest at first. After s= pending a fair amount of time looking for a guide that would help me out (= something that would guide me through much of the ideas in Ada in a gentle = manner was strongly preferred and be focused on Ada 2012), I couldn't find = something like this (there is, on the other hand plenty of material that wo= uld explain more advanced concepts.) Having mastered many of the basic con= cepts in this wonderful language, I figured that having a guide for this wo= uld be very helpful and wrote one. Hence the book "Introductory Ada Progra= mming Book: A Book for Beginner Programmers and Beginners to Ada". The goa= l was to create a roadmap for those new to Ada learn more quickly and gain = a certain level of mastery. Hi, Ada basically allows you to think about your data, the way other languages = should, but don't. You can still program in a C like way although that's no= t advised. Basically, data has ranges of allowable values and the compiler = will enforce their use, the programmer doesn't have to remember to shove in= ASSERT macros everywhere. Take a look at John English's AdaCraft http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_c= ontent/docs/craft/html/contents.htm - wasn't he supposed to be updating thi= s to Ada 2012? IMO, Ada 2012 is the best revision we have so far, if you don't want to use= certain features don't use them, or if there is one, use "pragma Restricti= on (x);" to make the compiler enforce it. Then use the various standards (don't bother with the annotated ones yet), = http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/standards to learn Ada 2005 and 2012 ext= ensions to Ada95.=20 BTW, what projects do you have in mind? Always interesting to know what peo= ple are doing with the language and why they're looking into it. :)