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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa554b78fbc1aa13 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-29 14:41:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news11-gui.server.ntli.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Liddle Feesh" From: "Liddle Feesh" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <98104da8.0112280502.7e0addf3@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Games? A Newbie question X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:34:55 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.105.185.39 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news11-gui.server.ntli.net 1009665384 213.105.185.39 (Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:36:24 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:36:24 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18395 Date: 2001-12-29T22:34:55+00:00 List-Id: "Michal Nowak" wrote: > >I'm a newbie. This book is in front of me now. It's not the easiest to > >follow. It's neither a "Code Intensive Reference Manual" nor a "Tutorial". > >Sort of in limbo inbetween with that nasty "Courier" font for program > >listings - you know the type. > > Notice, that I wrote that it is "encyclopedic knowledge". Hmm, even > that English is not my native language I found it quite easy to read > and understand. > > From preface: "Ada as a Second Language is at once a tutorial to Ada > and a complete refernce." For me it is complete refernce. Is it a > tutorial? Hmm, yes, maybe not giving you quick start into Ada, like > "Lovelace tutorial" by David Wheeler or mentioned earlier John English' > book, but giving more detailed knowledge. I see everyone raves over this book! Must be >something< special in it. It's been taken out a lot - and is reserved too. > I agree, that the style in which it is written is rather formal and > different from direct one, like in "Ada 95 - craft of object oriented > programming". But it is also much easier to read than Reference Manual > (which is not tutorial, but serves well as additional reference). RM is useful. That's what we were presented with on our course - together with the spec and told to 'get on with it'. > And, the title "Ada - *as a second languge*" assumes, that you are > familiar and fluent with programming in one of other languages > (COBOL, C++, Fortran, Pascal). > Hey, but don't give up, there are lots of other books on Ada, > I hope you should have access to them in libraries. Over Christmas and the New Year? No way! Everywhere is closed and/or out of books/lending. -- Liddle Feesh ' O 0 o <"//>< ' o'^ (Remove UNDERPANTS to reply)