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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Welcome to Ada World!
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:23:42 GMT, "Stephane Richard"
<stephane.richard@verizon.net> wrote:

>Because of the size of the buttons, I'm limited in the length of the text I
>can put in there
>
>How about a button
>
>Ada Reference
>
>and on that page 2 categories, Books and Online Books ?

For on-line books, also a link to get either a printable version or a
version that can be used locally.

>Makes sense?

Yes, there are many good Ada text books many (me) do know about.
Probably one should distinguish them into finer categories:

- what is Ada?
- want to learn it
- want to dig deeper
- looking for a specific/complex/obscure issue

> of so I'll get started on it right away....if you have links to
>them, by aleams let me know make my job faster...

Ada distilled by Richard Riehle:
http://www.adapower.com/learn/adadistilled.pdf

Ada 95 Rationale:
http://www.adapower.com/rationale/

AARM:
http://www.adaic.com/standards/95aarm/html/AA-TOC.html

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Dmitry Kazakov
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