Beginner needs help

Beginner needs help

[Peter43210]

I don't know anything of the Ada language, but I gonna have to use it in a
couple of months. Is there anybody to tell me where I could find the program
(compiler) and any book (on the Net, because I'm French) to help me start.
Thanks to anybody answering,
Vincent

Re: Beginner needs help

[Andreas Winckler]

Peter43210 wrote:
> 
> I don't know anything of the Ada language, but I gonna have to use it
> in a couple of months. Is there anybody to tell me where I could find
> the program (compiler) and any book (on the Net, because I'm French)
> to help me start.

http://www.adahome.com/ is a good place to begin with. For a quick and
easy start the free GNAT compiler is the right choice. It's available on
many ftp-sites. As user-interface and Editor for GNAT I can strongly
recommend Grasp, see
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/cse/research/grasp/ for details.

Good luck learning Ada!

AW
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Re: Beginner needs help

[Steve Quinlan]

Peter43210 wrote:

> I don't know anything of the Ada language, but I gonna have to use it in a
> couple of months. Is there anybody to tell me where I could find the program
> (compiler) and any book (on the Net, because I'm French) to help me start.
> Thanks to anybody answering,
> Vincent

  You can find references to everything you want at  www.adahome.com . Go to the
bottom -- "Lovelace tutorial" is an online Ada programming tutorial. Click
"compilers" and follow that till you get to the link to the GNAT mirror sites.
GNAT is a freely available Ada compiler which you can download and install.

Re: Beginner needs help

[David C. Hoos, Sr.]

Peter43210 wrote in message <19990330075715.13320.00000012@ng43.aol.com>...
>I don't know anything of the Ada language, but I gonna have to use it in a
>couple of months. Is there anybody to tell me where I could find the program
>(compiler) and any book (on the Net, because I'm French) to help me start.
>Thanks to anybody answering,
>Vincent
The GNU ada compiler (GNAT) is available for many platforms
(you didn't say which one you need to use) at
ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat

A debugger and copious documentation is there also.

I am not personally aware of any Ada books in French, but
there is a selection for your perusal at mt website
http://ada95.com/bookstore.htm

For on-line documentation, start at http://adahome.com and/or
http://adaic.org

Welcome to the Ada community.

Re: Beginner needs help

[David Botton]

Take a look at http://www.botton.com/ada for some sample code, discounts
on books, and links to all the best Ada sites on the net.

David Botton


Peter43210 wrote:
> 
> I don't know anything of the Ada language, but I gonna have to use it in a
> couple of months. Is there anybody to tell me where I could find the program
> (compiler) and any book (on the Net, because I'm French) to help me start.
> Thanks to anybody answering,
> Vincent