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 10.58.161.51 with SMTP id xp19mr2414955veb.23.1386843394109; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:16:34 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.82.45 with SMTP id f13mr29535qey.20.1386843394089; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:16:34 -0800 (PST) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!209.85.216.88.MISMATCH!p15no21118923qaj.0!news-out.google.com!9ni7692qaf.0!nntp.google.com!p15no21118916qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:16:33 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.140.183.44; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.140.183.44 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Programming_in_Linux_=96_Cold_Start=2E?= From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:16:34 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 2275 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:184223 Date: 2013-12-12T02:16:33-08:00 List-Id: I=92m planning to have a go at programming crypto ciphers in Linux and am t= otally vague about how to get started. My computer has dual booting for Windows 7 & 8 and I would like to know if = it is advisable to try partitioning my hard drive further so to include Lin= ux or should I consider an extra external drive?? Apart from that can anybody suggest which version of Linux is best for prog= ramming in Ada. Is it possible to purchase a CD ROM of an Ada compiler (I detest longwinded= downloading and the possibility of a load of malware coming with it). Finally, my existing programs in Ada each contain about 12 very large =91Ca= se=92 packages (most contain about 15000 large non-repeating integers) crea= ted in Windows that I use as containers. Would it be chancy or not to assu= me that these will adapt smoothly to a Linux environment and I will only ha= ve the main programs to contend with for re-writing. Your help as usual would be greatly appreciated. =20 Any advice whatever would be appreciated. adacrypt