Re: Ada for a programming newb.

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <L949b.394$U11.181@fe01.atl2.webusenet.com>, Kyle Root <kappy044@myrealbox.com> writes:
> I was wondering if Ada would be suitable for me.  I've started to learn Java
> (and I actually understood most of it) but just gave up cause I found more
> interesting things to do and it seemed that I never could make time for it.
> But now I've got plenty of time and want to learn to program again.

A salient quality of Ada is that Ada is more likely than many other
languages to detect programming errors at compile-time.  While there
are certainly errors that no compiler could detect, little details
like dividing the number of apples by the time of day are readily
detected by Ada compilers.

> There doesn't seem to be as much documentation (so I'm a little confused as
> to how one'd go about learning it) as in some other languages but it is
> very easy to read and looks very pascal-like (I know because I've been
> looking at quite a few languages).
> What do you think?

There are many good books for learning Ada, but you don't need more than
one to start.

	http://www.adapower.com/

has a section about Ada books, and sections about many other aspects
of Ada as well.