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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Looking for better Ada books
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:23:13 -0500
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> On 03/12/2016 12:10 AM, Hadrien Grasland wrote:
>>
>> Online material tends to fall either in the "quick tutorial" or the
>> "newcomer-hostile authoritative reference" category, with little 
>> in-between
>> for the intermediate learners. Unless you want to read "tip of the week" 
>> blog
>> posts for a whole year, of course ;)
>
> /Ada Distilled/, being aimed at experienced C/++ programmers, seems to be 
> a rare
> example of something more than a quick tutorial but not newcomer-hostile.

Yes, I was mostly thinking of Ada Distilled in my original reply, but since 
books are such a personal thing, I thought it was best to highlight that 
there are many such resources.

                          Randy.