Re: Learning Ada but missing the basics?

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

ryan k <ryan@ryankaskel.com> writes:
> I'm trying to learn Ada because a) I think it's cool to learn new
> computer languages and b) it looks like a good one. I've gone the
> through a lot of the tutorials but lets say have package MyPackage and
> 5 subprograms are in the body. Which procedure is run first? Is it
> sequential?

None of them will run unless they're called.

>             Is there some sort of equivalent to C's main()?

Not exactly.  There's no special name for the entry point.  You
specify it when you link the program.

>                                                             Is a
> binary created for every package?

That depends on what you mean by "a binary".  There typically won't be
an executable created for each package.  An Ada package is similar in
some ways to a separately compiled C source file; you can combine
several of them, along with a procedure that's specified to be the
main program, into a single program.  The details of how you do this
are defined by each implementation, not by the language.

>                                   I guess I don't understand where
> things start and end. Any help or links are greatly appreciated!

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