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From: oliderid@yahoo.co.uk (Olivier Laurent)
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Subject: Re: a good book to start with?
Date: 8 Oct 2003 03:18:03 -0700
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> Hi Olivier
> 
> I recommend you visit my website (http://www.adaworld.com) and take a look
> at the Learning Center / Free Books section.  My first link there is a pdf
> file called Ada Distilled (Make explicitely to teach Ada to C++ programmers.
> 
> As for GUI you can have a look at http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/ for a
> good GUI library.  and for a tool that uses it, visit
> http://glade.gnome.org/
> 
> Hope this puts you one the right track :-)

Thanks St�phane. Impressive web site!

You look like an ADA evangelist ;-), maybe you can help me: 
Is ESA (European Space Agency) still based its core software
developments on ADA? I read somewhere (on emits.esa.int I think) that
JAVA is emerging as the next ESA's standard language?

Olivier