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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Free learning resources for Ada (are they good enough?)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:06:16 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:45:17 -0700, Dufr wrote:

> Incidentally, this brings up an important question: would a beginner
> (starting today) be likely to later find himself at a disadvantage if he
> learns the language from an Ada 95 / 2005 tutorial (instead of the
> latest 2012 standard)? 

If the beginner has a background in other OO languages where you can 
write object.method(); calls, he may be more comfortable going straight 
to Ada 2005 which allows both object.method; and method(object); 
rather than un-learning that for Ada(95) and re-learning it later.

Otherwise I agree that Ada-95 is a perfectly good place to start.

- Brian