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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cf86c450b827479 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-12 08:26:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:55:05 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9b4fkb$mcc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3AD5CDDD.8E028CB4@libero.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 987087307 22924 136.170.200.133 (12 Apr 2001 14:55:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Apr 2001 14:55:07 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6820 Date: 2001-04-12T14:55:07+00:00 List-Id: See: http://www.adapower.org/ for numerous resources for Ada. There are books, tutorials, software examples, links to related sites, etc. We are also pretty friendly here with respect to answering specific questions about how various aspects of Ada work. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "GianLuigi Piacentini" wrote in message news:3AD5CDDD.8E028CB4@libero.it... > I'm a Fortran9x programmer, with some experience/exposure to C, too. > I would like to learn Ada, and use it to program PC (under Win > 95/98/NT4/2000) and industrial PC under DOS, for automation > applications. I foresee the need to do some Windows programming, and > also to send/receive characters via the serial port. > I understand that at some time I should upgrade to a commercial > compiler, but I would like to show Ada's capabilities, so I could > justify an Ada compiler versus a C or VB compiler. > > Do you have any suggestion, pointers to book, on-line tutorials and so > on ? > > Apologizing for my english, Many thanks in advance > Gigi Piacentini >