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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d76796391769899 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e5g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving the first contact with Ada (was: GCC conflict on Ubuntu for mixed Ada/C++ project) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 05:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <41d3829e-286d-4894-9140-31343bfa75ac@o12g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <82y6fgxncs.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <82aarux3g3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <2da7ba0b-0c45-4c7b-a523-b3438e43212a@j27g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <87k4qsapgr.fsf_-_@ludovic-brenta.org> <096e5f19-ed4d-4c02-b889-88856ac0d5c7@5g2000yqz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1278421062 6523 127.0.0.1 (6 Jul 2010 12:57:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e5g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:13195 Date: 2010-07-06T05:57:42-07:00 List-Id: Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester wrote on comp.lang.ada: > I do not have time to follow this thread, but the quoted post made me > say to an outsider earlier than I was going to that trying to install Parse error, or syntax error :) I have no idea what you're trying to say. > an Ada compiler would be a good idea. An excerpt of a report of how > this was not accomplished is quoted at the end of this post. I generally agreed and still agree with most of what the OP said; there is a wealth of information about Ada and installing compilers on the web but there is a need for an "entry point" document with step-by- step instructions for beginners. The Ada Programming wikibook[1] is the closest thing to such a tutorial; it is still not perfect, of course. The Ada Information Clearinghouse[2] is the closest thing to a central hub for more general information (other books, standards, success stories, etc.) So, if you would like to help a beginner intalling an Ada development environment, you should point them to these two sites. If they have any specific questions, you should direct them to this newsgroup comp.lang.ada and tell them to specify which operating system they use and which compiler, IDE or library they're trying to install. [1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming [2] http://www.adaic.com Also, everyone is free to improve the wikibook (I recently rewrote the chapter on object-oriented programming myself). -- Ludovic Brenta.