Re: Good ADA book

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Chris asks

"I am in the process of learning Ada.  I am looking for a good book in
which I can pick up the language quickly and learn from it."

I am posting this reply since other students reading CLA can benefit
from it.

Before you post questions to a newsgroup, make an effort to read and
understand the FAQ associated with the newsgroup. This has two benefits,
one to you, and one to the community.

First, to you, you will get a carefully thought out complete answer to
questions like this one (looking for books), that have been carefully
prepared and reviewed. You will find this much more useful than the
scattershot responses you are likely to get directly from the newsgroup,
which will range from highly informed to completely uninformed, and even,
in a case like this, to replies from authors pushing their own books (not
exactly an objective source of information!)

Second, you help to improve the signal to noise ratio on the newsgroup
this way. This particular question (looking for books) gets posted
pretty frequently. Not only do the questions generate low signal messages,
but worse, people often reply to such messages by posting the answers,
rather than using email, further raising the noise ratio.

In the case of Ada, you can find the answer to this and many other
questions of interest at the extremely well done home page
http://www.adahome.com