Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.

[swhalen@netcom.com]

I'm surprised that no one has pointed you to the Ada95 Quality and
Style Guide (AQS95). It's available in some of the places the
reference manual is, and in several formats. I keep an html copy that
I've run a quick perl script over to make it run from disk.  It's not
as "authoritative" as the RM, but unless you're writing an Ada
compiler, the RM can be a bit much to follow....

I think the AQS is one of the most useful "semi-official" documents
around and I also happen to agree with just about everything it says
is "good" Ada95 <g>.

I'd also recommend Dale Stanbrough's "Quick Ada" tutorial notes at

  http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dale/ada/aln.html

as one of the more helpful for experienced programmers. There is a
postscript version you can print out.  It is written at a good level
for experienced programmers.  I seem to recall there was a minor typo
or two, but overall I think you might find it helpful.

Good luck with Ada!

Steve

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