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On 07/22/2013 12:04 PM, Alan Jump wrote:
>
> I still find myself wishing for a better "introductory" text than Barnes; I'm
> a neophyte coder, not a language lawyer. And it's already been said elsewhere
> (several times!) that the LRM is written as a cure for insomnia. I'd be happy
> finding a good lower-division text that explains more of the "how" and less
> of the "why". I have a copy of "Rendezvous with Ada 95" on the way, and
> somewhere on my backup drive I have the Ada95 Wikibook. I may even,
> somewhere, have the old Ada Tutor zip file stashed away, but that will take
> some digging in dark corners to locate. In the meantime, though, I'll keep
> feeding code into GNAT and working on figuring out the error messages that
> code throws. :-)

For someone already familiar with programming, I'd recommend "Ada Distilled":

http://www.adaic.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Ada-Distilled-24-January-2011-Ada-2005-Version.pdf

However, this won't help you with a specific compiler, which seems to be the 
source of your confusion. For that you'll have to refer to the top-secret GNAT 
documentation.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!"
Dr. Strangelove
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