From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: New to Ada, why these warning messages?
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 16:50:41 -0700
Date: 2016-01-01T16:50:41-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n6737j$q54$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n66n2d$qvb$1@reader1.panix.com>
On 01/01/2016 01:20 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote:
>
> Also, a good first Ada book?
>
> I found "Programming in Ada 2012" by John Barnes. It's rather
> large. I was hoping for something like "The C Programming
> Language, 2nd edition" by Kernighan and Ritchie. Is there
> anything that concise?
Barnes is good and very comprehensive, if expensive and heavy. Since you have
programming experience , I recommend /Ada Distilled/, available at
http://www.adaic.org/learn/materials/
specifically,
http://www.adaic.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Ada-Distilled-24-January-2011-Ada-2005-Version.pdf
It's for ISO/IEC 8652:2007, but if you need Ada 12 it's easy enough to pick up
the new stuff. Rumor has it there's an Ada-12 version coming soon.
> (My goal is to determine whether it would be better to convert
> a large cache of Fortran 95 programs to C or Ada. I already
> know the problems converting to C. I need to convert some
> Fortran programs to Ada to determine what problems might occur.)
We have hard data across multiple application domains showing that deployed C
has 4 times the errors of deployed Ada. I'm not aware of any data for Ada
compared to Fortran, but I wouldn't be surprised if Ada has an edge there, too.
So if this is a cost-plus DoD project doing this to drive up costs through
unnecessary work, converting to C is the way to go. Where correctness is
tantamount, Ada is the language of choice.
--
Jeff Carter
"Run away! Run away!"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-01 2:19 New to Ada, why these warning messages? Dale Dellutri
2016-01-01 2:47 ` David Botton
2016-01-01 5:54 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-01 21:18 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-01 17:30 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-01-01 20:20 ` Dale Dellutri
2016-01-01 21:24 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-01 21:54 ` Dale Dellutri
2016-01-02 12:45 ` Simon Clubley
2016-01-02 14:21 ` Britt
2016-01-02 15:29 ` Simon Clubley
2016-01-03 7:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-01-03 9:32 ` Simon Wright
2016-01-03 9:59 ` Simon Clubley
2016-01-03 14:23 ` David Botton
2016-01-03 15:48 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-01-03 18:03 ` David Botton
2016-01-03 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2016-01-03 19:05 ` David Botton
2016-01-01 23:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2016-01-02 21:05 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-02 22:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-02 17:59 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-01-02 18:37 ` Paul Rubin
2016-01-02 21:03 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-02 21:08 ` Bob Duff
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