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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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"Jeffrey Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> On 09/29/2011 09:38 PM, John B. Matthews wrote:
>>
>> Yes, the "Ada Programming" wiki [1] is exemplary, and "Ada 95: The Craft
>> of Object-Oriented Programming" [2] is available on line. The "Rationale
>> for Ada 2005" [3], also by Barnes, limns the high quality of the book.
>
> If you're already familiar with another programming language, /Ada 
> Distilled/ can be useful:
>
> http://www.adapower.com/pdfs/AdaDistilled07-27-2003.pdf

That's a pretty old version. Find a much more recent version (2009) at 
http://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/; look under Ada 95 books.

I have an 2011 version stored in the old (dead) AdaIC website, but for some 
reason that never made it to AdaIC.org. I'll check on that ASAP...

                                 Randy.