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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 78.192.65.63 Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!news.muarf.org!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Differences between Ada 83 and other revisions Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:31:14 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <19ac8735-7a9c-429f-a111-a1b3c4b0985b@googlegroups.com> <538b7cd3-94c6-44d7-8340-8d411b032e22@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1392334274 19958 69.95.181.76 (13 Feb 2014 23:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 23:31:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Original-Bytes: 2583 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:184845 Date: 2014-02-13T17:31:14-06:00 List-Id: wrote in message news:538b7cd3-94c6-44d7-8340-8d411b032e22@googlegroups.com... > 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).