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From: "Ayende Rahien" <Dont@spam.me>
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Subject: Learning Ada (newbie)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:25:27 +0200
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1. Where can I learn Ada? Preferably a turial on the web. I'm currently
reading (http://www.adahome.com/Ammo/Cplpl2Ada.html) which presents some
very interesting concepts (the fine-grained variables, frex), but it doesn't
really teach much. I used to know Pascal (been several years since I program
in it), and I know C/C++ pretty well. So I don't really need an interduction
to programming, just to Ada itself.
2. Can you recommend a good IDE for Ada? Preferably for Windows.
3. I read in Jargon File that "hackers find Ada's exception handling &
inter-process communication particularly hilarious." among other stuff. Why
is that? What are the advantages & disadvantages of Ada compare to C or C++
and other languages?

Thanks in advance,
    Ayende Rahien