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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,94bac711cf2950f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-27 03:15:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Michal Nowak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie wanna Ada Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:17:55 +0200 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <3BD87B95.2000703@maciejsobczak.com> <3BD9A519.5040502@maciejsobczak.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1004177748 57480 137.194.161.2 (27 Oct 2001 10:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:15:48 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada usegroup->mailing list gateway" Return-Path: In-reply-to: <3BD9A519.5040502@maciejsobczak.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.01 (3) Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: vinnie@inetia.pl List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15299 Date: 2001-10-27T12:17:55+02:00 >Many of my colleagues haven't heard about Ada and it's a vain effort to >find something about it in our bookshops. As I remeber, there was book titled "Ada95" published by Helion two or three years ago. Maybe thay have it stored somewhere, I don't think it was selling well. Even if you ask computer scientist here what is Ada, they will faster match it with song title "Ada, to nie wypada", than with programming language :-( I saw this book, but I don't have it. Nearly all subjects from this book you will find in free online resources, for example: ADA 95: THE CRAFT OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING by John English, available at: http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ and Object Oriented Software in Ada 95 Second Edition by Michael Smith, available at: http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/ada/ If you want printed book, I think that "Ada as a Second Language" by Norman Cohen is a good positon. Short review is available at: http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Books/ada95reviews.html/ >Not mentioning the employers. Aaaaarrgh. I haven't find any Ada related job here yet. Everywhere "Visual Basic, C++, Java required..." >But I'll keep learning and playing with it, there has to be some reason >why big and critical systems are built in Ada, right? Yea. When I started to write in Ada, I realized that error rate noticeably decreased in compare to C++. It is quite easy to make a mistake between == and = or && and & in C. At my work lots of time I spent findind bugs in C-like (C++/PHP/Java) code in software written by my predecessors. After that I'm sick when I see C-like code. It is also harder to write messy code, especailly if get familiar with "Ada Rationale" (http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada95.html/) Happy Ada programming, Mike ----------------------------------------- ____| \%/ |~~\ O | o>> Mike Nowak | T | / > vinnie@inetia.pl | http://www.geocities.com/vinnie14pl _|__