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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: ADA 95 Best Practices Book
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:42:14 +0200
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On 18-01-24 03:19 , MichaelD_4321@aol.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 8:15:34 PM UTC-5, Michae...@aol.com wrote:
>> In the way of a best practices book on ASA 95, does any such creature exist? Why not?
    ...
> Ideally, I would like a recommendation for an ADA 95 using Linux,
> but anything would do.

Specifically for Ada on Linux, this comes to mind:

    "The Big Online Book of Linux Ada Programming"

    http://www.pegasoft.ca/resources/boblap/book.html

It seems to have been last updated in 2009, so it is a bit old, and 
there may today be better alternatives to some of the tools it suggests, 
such as for GUI development (say, gnoga, http://gnoga.com/).

There is a list of learning materials at 
http://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/.

One of those is the Ada 95 Quality and Style Guide, 
http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/docs/95style/html/cover.html.

> How different are the ADA 95 compilers on Linux versus Windows?

The only compiler that I have used on both Linux and Windows is GNAT, 
and that is very similar on Linux and Windows. The GPS (GNAT 
Programmming System) IDE works on both.

Of course the OS API is very different on Linux and Windows, but GNAT 
provides some GNAT-specific libraries that hide much of that difference.

> Which is better.

<flamebait> Linux, of course :-) Whatever your language. </flamebait>

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