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From: Ankur Sethi <get.me.ankur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada?
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> It would be nice if you could tell us which parts of the Wikibook you
> would like to see improved.

I didn't get too far into the book, but one chapter I feel needs work
is the one on the Ada type system. The code examples later in the
chapter went right over my head. Moreover, some beginning chapters
have paragraphs that seem out of place. They seem to have a paragraph
about concurrency somewhere in the first chapter. My reaction was :
"eh?".

It's a very nice book, yes. But for a newbie, it's not much help.
Somebody who has been programming for a while will undoubtedly pick up
Ada pretty quickly from that book. I found John English's "The Craft
of OO Programming" much better, although it is targeted towards
complete beginners and not people like me who already know how to use
another language (and covers Ada95, not Ada05).

A question : when was the Ada 2005 standard defined? Wikipedia says it
was in 2007. If that's true, we should soon be having books about it,
right?