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From: Martin <martin@thedowies.com>
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On Aug 30, 5:08=A0pm, milouz <a.micheli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much for all your answers !
> They are all very detailed and I feel that I have a better grasp of
> how to program with Ada now. But something still puzzles me...
>
> I'm ok when Adam B. says:
>
> > asking "How do I write this C code in Ada" is the WRONG approach.
>
> But, let me develop...
> In C, it's rather easy to know how to do something because 1/ the
> langage is so simple and 2/ there are some many helpful resources
> (K&R, glibc source code or whatever else, man pages, Stevens's
> books...). I talk here about C but it's rather the same with Python,
> Perl, C++ or Java.
>
> In Ada, I found nothing similar and even finding howto do a kind of
> 'printf("%x"...)'... hum, sorry... displaying an Integer in hexa, is
> difficult. The ARM is a load of 800 pages with no example (it's a
> reference manual. how would learn C by reading ISO/CEI 9899:1999 ?).
> J.Barnes book might be great but... waiting 571 pages to learn how to
> display "hello, world" on a screen is a bit discouraging.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm convinced Ada is great. But what is the proper
> way to learn Ada ?

Start by heading to http://www.adaic.org/learn/ and
http://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/#ada_95_books

On that last page there are 3 Ada95 ebooks - that's a start! :-)

Also wiki has lots of links (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/
Ada_Programming including http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Basi=
c)
is or Rosetta (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Ada) may be
useful.

HTH
-- Martin