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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea19776e3073a96 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: swhalen@netcom.com Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator. Date: 2000/03/29 Message-ID: <8btrv3$p8d$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604028467 References: <38e148e2.5089627@news.shreve.net> <38e19656.17008608@news.shreve.net> Organization: ? User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990517 ("Psychonaut") (UNIX) (SunOS/4.1.4 (sun4m)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 . 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 -- {===--------------------------------------------------------------===} Steve Whalen swhalen@netcom.com {===--------------------------------------------------------------===}