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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f6a5f8ca92037dc8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 14:51:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.190.198.17!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!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: Which docs first? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:32:44 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9qfklt$8t0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1003181565 9120 136.170.200.133 (15 Oct 2001 21:32:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Oct 2001 21:32:45 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14607 Date: 2001-10-15T21:32:45+00:00 List-Id: The ARM and Rationale are really aimed at compiler writers. They're useful, but not really the best way to learn the language. You're better off working through someone's text book and/or on-line tutorials first. If you want to be a compiler writer when you grow up :-) then go right ahead and study the rest - but its better to get a feel for the language from other sources first. See http://www.adapower.org/ for additional resources and a book is available on line at: http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ Have fun and be sure to visit C.L.A. with your questions. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Clueless" wrote in message news:vnIy7.177125$K6.83721772@news2... > 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