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, MSGID_RANDY 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: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator. Date: 2000/04/01 Message-ID: <8c4vcp$gok$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 605243965 References: <38e148e2.5089627@news.shreve.net> <38e19656.17008608@news.shreve.net> <8bs49i$baq1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <38E2B446.C9A4D1@research.canon.com.au> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x33.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Apr 01 13:59:58 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <38E2B446.C9A4D1@research.canon.com.au>, Geoff Bull 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 :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.