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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b2d36a382ccbeb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!lrz.de!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Hanigk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada? Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:22:12 +0200 Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Message-ID: References: <2ee634c3-0dee-4f02-8b02-c4804efd068f@x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <69ea5144-0c58-4a16-91fb-6eefa34646bb@w8g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <4843C58D.6080603@gmail.com> <4843e82c$0$27444$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.fs.tum.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.lrz-muenchen.de 1212654131 12121 129.187.202.43 (5 Jun 2008 08:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@lrz-muenchen.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:575 Date: 2008-06-05T10:22:12+02:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta writes: > How about others? Were you a hobbyist when you learned Ada? Did many > people attend formal training? Started with Ada a few years ago as part of a student lab project (elevator control ...); on hiatus until a few weeks ago, now I'm mostly reading books (got the Barnes and Burns) and trying to do smaller tasks before I'm starting on something bigger. Personal gripe: access to a free working Ada compiler is difficult on non-Linux systems (OS X and Solaris/AMD64). Sebastian