* learning Ada on Mac @ 1996-08-06 0:00 Christopher Foran 1996-08-07 0:00 ` John Herro 1996-08-10 0:00 ` james E. Hopper 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Christopher Foran @ 1996-08-06 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) I am interested in learning the Ada programming language. I was wondering if someone could post a tutorial or a list of books about learning Ada and give me some ideas on where to start. I would prefer if the material was Macintosh oriented. please post to this group or email me at oblivion@earthlink.net -Thanx ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: learning Ada on Mac 1996-08-06 0:00 learning Ada on Mac Christopher Foran @ 1996-08-07 0:00 ` John Herro 1996-08-10 0:00 ` james E. Hopper 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: John Herro @ 1996-08-07 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) oblivion@earthlink.net (Christopher Foran) writes: > I am interested in learning the Ada programming > language. I was wondering if someone could > post a tutorial or a list of books about learning > Ada and give me some ideas on where to start. > I would prefer if the material was Macintosh oriented. There's a free tutorial called Lovelace, written in HTML by David Wheeler, at http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.htm. If you have a Web browser on your Mac, you can either run Lovelace right on the Web, or download it and run it locally. I wrote a shareware tutorial called Ada Tutor, available for download at the Web and FTP sites below my signature. It has been compiled to run under DOS, but the Ada source code is included, so if your Mac has an Ada 83 or Ada 95 compiler, it will run on your Mac. (Several Mac users have run Ada Tutor.) For a textbook, I strongly recommend RENDEZVOUS WITH ADA 95 by David Naiditch, published by John Wiley and Sons. There's a coupon at the Web and FTP sites below my signature, which you can send directly to Wiley to order the book. (I have to admit to a very small financial interest if you order the book with the coupon mentioned, but I have no financial interest if you get the book from any other source. I think it's an *excellent* textbook.) You'll like Ada! Ada catches errors at compile time that other languages catch only at run time, or not at all. Also, Ada programs tend to be easier to read, and easier to modify a month or a year later. You'll find the people here at comp.lang.ada eager to help. Good luck! - John Herro Software Innovations Technology http://members.aol.com/AdaTutor ftp://members.aol.com/AdaTutor ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: learning Ada on Mac 1996-08-06 0:00 learning Ada on Mac Christopher Foran 1996-08-07 0:00 ` John Herro @ 1996-08-10 0:00 ` james E. Hopper 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: james E. Hopper @ 1996-08-10 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <oblivion-0608961126530001@pool060.max33.new-york.ny.dynip.alter.net> Christopher Foran, oblivion@earthlink.net writes: >I am interested in learning the Ada programming language. I was wondering >if someone could post a tutorial or a list of books about learning Ada and >give me some ideas on where to start. I would prefer if the material was >Macintosh oriented. please post to this group or email me at >oblivion@earthlink.net The gnat-mac ada compiler that was ported by our team will soon have a set of macintosh examples. Mike Feldman is writting a set of example code oritneted to the mac toolbox to teach the use of ada ini the mac environment. the compiler is free, the examples are free, of the mac unix clone that runs on top of mac os is not free, but it will soon be very cheap. see http://gnat-mac.com/macada/ for more details on getting the mac compiler getting on our mailing list for information about the new examples etc. best jim ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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