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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a086bb9fb1eeb36 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Good ADA book Date: 1997/01/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212351417 references: <32DCE835.41C6@gelac.mar.lmco.com> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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