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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-08 10:06:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!news-in-sanjose!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BC0F75B.51D32B3@adaworks.com> <9pr8gu0tnf@drn.newsguy.com> <3BC1305D.1C6910C@worldnet.att.net> <9prebb$1on$1@news.service.uci.edu> Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 13:05:23 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 17:05:23 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13943 Date: 2001-10-08T17:05:23+00:00 List-Id: In article <9prebb$1on$1@news.service.uci.edu>, Navid Azimi says... >I tried to learn Ada a few months ago, and I couldn't even get a straight >answer to what type of compiler exists. Not one person would give me a right >answer, and to this day, I still don't know. I looked back over those old threads, and I have to admit that some of the messages went off on tangents. But that is to be expected here on Usenet. Some of the answers seemed to have good info in them. If you ask a question, and our answers leave you still confused, or you try to follow the advice, but get lost somewhere, you really should ask further questions. My personal advice for getting started would be to install the Windows version of Gnat, and use whatever text editor you prefer. If you are a complete beginner, and thus don't even *have* a favorite text editor, you'd probably be best off using Notepad until you get your feet under you. Learning a programming editor, the language, and a language environment, and programming in general, all at the same time would be a bit much to ask of anyone. But if you want to go whole-hog, the best editor for Gnat is Emacs. Links to both should be on my webpage. Seriously: Go try to make a "Hello world" program, and check back in here for help whenever you get stuck on a step. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.