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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,57c5412f281db3e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!0addc736!not-for-mail From: Jim Gurtner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Learning Ada83 Reply-To: jgurtner@mindspring.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 02:42:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.245.6.51 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1094438524 66.245.6.51 (Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:42:04 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:42:04 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3350 Date: 2004-09-06T02:42:04+00:00 List-Id: Thank you all for clearing this up for me! JimG On 2 Sep 2004 07:23:25 -0700, jgurtner@mindspring.com (Jim Gurtner) wrote: >I am a Computer Engineering student and am teaching myself Ada95 using >the book "Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming" by John >English. > >I would like to be able to get a job in the defense industry when I >graduate. Should I get a book on Ada83 and study it also? Or does >studying Ada95 make one automatically fluent in Ada83? > >Thanks in advance! > >Jim Gurtner >(an Ada programmer wannabe!) >jgurtner@mindspring.com