Re: Which docs first?

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

"Marc A. Criley" <mcqada@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> For experienced Ada 83 programmers I highly recommend the Ada 95
> Rationale as a good introduction and means to get familiar with the new
> features and changes.  It's technical, but quite readable.
>
I wouldn't suggest *not* reading it assuming one has the time and technical
background, but I'd think its the harder way to simply learn enough of the
language to get started.


> For those new to the language, though, I'll defer to others for book
> recommendations.  <OLDCOOT>When I learned Ada--and it was _Ada_, not
> "Ada 83"--we didn't have any fancy schmancy Ada books, we had the LRM.
> And if you couldn't understand the Reference Manual, then you could go
> stand in the corner with the other BASIC programmers.</OLDCOOT>
>

....And we didn't even have *compilers* for it like these spoiled kids of
today! We had to hand-translate it into zeros and ones - and sometimes we
didn't even have zeros and had to use "O"'s instead! :-)

MDC
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