Re: Which docs first?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

The ARM and Rationale are really aimed at compiler writers. They're useful,
but not really the best way to learn the language. You're better off working
through someone's text book and/or on-line tutorials first. If you want to
be a compiler writer when you grow up :-) then go right ahead and study the
rest - but its better to get a feel for the language from other sources
first.

See http://www.adapower.org/ for additional resources and a book is
available on line at: http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/

Have fun and be sure to visit C.L.A. with your questions.

MDC
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"Clueless" <chris@dont.spam.me> wrote in message
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> Recentely I've been spending alot of time just reading through the LRM and
> the Rationale. I'm also planning on going through the GNAT source code(as
> per the recommendation found in Aho's Dragon Books).
>
> My question is this...how much time should a novice spend reviewing the
> official Ada docs( i.e.  the LRM and the Rationale), and compiler source
> code in proportion to the amount of time reading through the tutorials and
> text books that are available for newcomers to the language. Books such as
> Barnes's "Programming in Ada95" for instance, or the tutorials one finds
> out on the Net? I am assuming that there is nice middle ground somewhere,
> where one can become familiar with the guts of the language without
> becoming overwhelmed by what may appear on the  surface to be an extremely
> complex set of syntax and general language rules.
>
> Any advice?
>
> McDoobie chris@dont.spam.me