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Op 22-10-2021 om 5:29 schreef 711 Spooky Mart:
> The little snippets of Ada code I've seen look _alot_ like Pascal.
>
> What degree of learning curve is there to learn Ada, coming from a
> Pascal background? What kind of rough timeframes to get comfortable with
> programming without always looking to the manuals?
>
> Where is the best starting point for a Pascal programmer to get up and
> running with Ada?
>
I have learned programming in 1966/1967 in Algol 60. As seen i the Algol 
report that can be found on internet Algol 60 is mostly a language for 
defining algorithms. It does not defines Input and Output procedures. 
Pascal is one of the languages that have Algol 60 as a predecessor as is 
Ada. I did learn Pascal  from some course and later on I did learn Ada, 
the latter by just reading the book "Software Engineering with Ada" by 
Grady Booch. That was Ada 85. The first version of Ada. Ada is stricter 
than other languages and is meant to have NO Operating system dependant 
items, so if you cannot go around something there must be a package on 
each operating system having the same interface everywhere.