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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,442a61fa28886220 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-14 14:15:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!4.24.21.153!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!news.bbnplanet.com!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for a programming newb. Date: 14 Sep 2003 16:15:32 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: <8msBxJAxXXs7@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1063574127 28985 192.135.80.34 (14 Sep 2003 21:15:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42494 Date: 2003-09-14T16:15:32-05:00 List-Id: In article , Kyle Root 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.