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-Thread: 103376,ad4585f2971e47c5 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!216.196.110.142.MISMATCH!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:34:27 -0600 From: Brian Drummond Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Need some light on using Ada or not Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:37:15 +0000 Reply-To: brian@shapes.demon.co.uk Message-ID: References: <4d5ef836$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d605cbb$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-PajUnTnNsVXeRc1B/dxINC0UkB38ivrvdSc3t2fibAiUeCaOfbNyda3Hm75t+opujhRcwHlThPTl82v!4xsrpR2s2j9UMKC2XfpP9gf7xVVPbYv5RePHP22fpNQaDlUTr0HnenwTK6MVs8PxJRiDuMnsdRJ4!7qU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2213 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18449 Date: 2011-02-20T10:37:15+00:00 List-Id: On 20 Feb 2011 00:13:47 GMT, "Luis P. Mendes" wrote: >Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:20:55 -0800, Edward Fish escreveu: >I'd like to thank everyone that answered. >My main doubt is the amount of aid I can get if I embark in the Ada ship. >But I surely will give it a try. >I've read a lot about the language and seen some books. >Is it or is it not advisable for beginner like me to lear Ada from a 95 >book? I was thinking in the Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented >Programming book. >Any other recommended book? The Programming in Ada 2005 seems expensive >just to try the language. But very worthwhile, once you have decided to try Ada. >Free resources from the Internet don't seem to include much howtos or >guides of the 2005 specification. >Or did I miss something? For free; the Ada Wikibook is very good in most respects, and does have some coverage of Ada 2005. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming - Brian