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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Which docs first?
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In article <slrn9smn8m.9cq.gerhard.nospam@lilith.hqd-internal>, Gerhard
=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= says...
>
>On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:17:15 GMT, Clueless <chris@dont.spam.me> wrote:
>>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
>
>At the start:
>
>3  %: LRM
>97 %: good book (like Barnes')
>0  %: reading GNAT sources

That 3% should all be annexes K and L. Having a glance at the first 2 pages of
Annex A wouldn't hurt either, just to get an idea of what's in there.

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