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,b2d36a382ccbeb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada? Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:02:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <2ee634c3-0dee-4f02-8b02-c4804efd068f@x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <69ea5144-0c58-4a16-91fb-6eefa34646bb@w8g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <4843C58D.6080603@gmail.com> <4843e82c$0$27444$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1212494539 912 127.0.0.1 (3 Jun 2008 12:02:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040924,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:543 Date: 2008-06-03T05:02:19-07:00 List-Id: This discussion and the related points made in "Access procedure to pointer" make me wonder how people who are now knowledgeable in Ada learned the language. As for me, I learned by reading John English's book cover to cover, and I (think I) reached expert status by processing lots of bug reports on GCC; this made me study the fine points of the AARM. I did all that as a hobbyist (i.e. off hours), but I already had been programming for 12 years in various languages when I started learning. How about others? Were you a hobbyist when you learned Ada? Did many people attend formal training? -- Ludovic Brenta.