Re: Differences between Ada 83 and other revisions

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

<yoursurrogategod@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> If so, what would be a good book for Ada 2012?

Best place to find Ada books is
  http://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/

Unfortunately, if you go to that page, you won't see any Ada 2012 books 
listed. And that's because we're not aware of any Ada 2012 books that are 
available yet.

John Barnes is working on a a revision of his Programming in Ada for Ada 
2012, but he was delayed by needing to find a new publisher (his old 
publisher having gotten out of the technical book business). He has found a 
publisher, but I don't know when the book will be available.

Several other authors are planning to write Ada 2012 books, but none of 
those are committed yet.

So for now, I recommend using an Ada 2005 book and then reading material 
about the differences (in particular, the Ada 2012 Rationale and Reference 
Manual - http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/standards/ada12/). The 
differences in existing features between Ada 2005 and Ada 2012 are not 
major, so for the most part you can program the same for both. (Of course, 
you might want to use new features like Preconditions, and for that you'll 
have to look at Ada 2012 materials.) I believe AdaCore also has some useful 
materials on their website.

Good luck learning Ada!

                     Randy Brukardt, AdaIC webmaster (and many other hats).