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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada?
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"Ankur Sethi" <get.me.ankur@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> A question : when was the Ada 2005 standard defined? Wikipedia says it
> was in 2007. If that's true, we should soon be having books about it,
> right?

There are at least a few books out at this time. See 
http://www.adaic.org/learn/textbook.html. I don't know of any freebees yet, 
though. (I believe Richard Riehle said he was updating Ada Distilled, but he 
obviously hasn't finished that yet.)

                                              Randy Brukardt.