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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.13.203.215 with SMTP id n206mr4990045ywd.11.1447925221483; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:27:01 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.144.200 with SMTP id so8mr91077obb.5.1447925221442; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:27:01 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!b51no759915qgf.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni2316igd.0!nntp.google.com!i2no5173852igv.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:27:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4ae27877-e6da-4473-9166-f6cfd082e4bd@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.216.245.129; posting-account=21X1fwoAAABfSGdxRzzAXr3Ux_KE3tHr NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.216.245.129 References: <8ec278d8-e97e-47e7-b09b-1e89f08411f3@googlegroups.com> <876110cjrt.fsf@nightsong.com> <2a413f76-f141-48fa-b6b8-76e95d768c13@googlegroups.com> <4ae27877-e6da-4473-9166-f6cfd082e4bd@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada e-books From: Hadrien Grasland Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:27:01 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28456 Date: 2015-11-19T01:27:01-08:00 List-Id: > I'll echo a previous recommendation of Programming in Ada 2012 by John Barnes as a very reasonable place to start. > > -Steve Let that be a third recommendation then. This book sure is expensive as hell, even by the standards of academic writing (at least in print, don't know ebook pricing standards), but the quality of John Barnes' writing is certainly worth it :) I'd say it's the OpenGL SuperBible of Ada: not to be confused as a replacement for the spec (which is quite readable anyway), but a very thorough step-by-step introduction to the language. Hadrien