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

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <38E2B446.C9A4D1@research.canon.com.au>,
  Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au> wrote:

> > Anyway, as several people have pointed out, the original
poster should
> > put the RM95 away for now, and read a textbook first.
>
> IMO, this is bad advice for an experienced programmer.

maybe, but you used a textbook (an online tutorial *is* a
text book in this sense) to learn the language, so you don't
disagree that much.

The point is that trying to learn from the RM alone is a bad
idea for most folk (that incidentally is why I do not think
there should be examples in the RM, if you are at the level
where you can really understand things from the RM, you should
not need examples, if you do need examples, you will probably
do better to first learn Ada elsewhere -- now I know some
people are SO used to learning from example, and in fact
are almost "formalism-challenged" that in practice this is
not feasible advice, but I think you get my point :-)



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