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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b2d36a382ccbeb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad!news.highwinds-media.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny03.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada? From: "Ed Falis" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <2ee634c3-0dee-4f02-8b02-c4804efd068f@x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <69ea5144-0c58-4a16-91fb-6eefa34646bb@w8g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <4843C58D.6080603@gmail.com> <4843e82c$0$27444$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.27 (Linux) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:31:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.184.110.46 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny03 1212499891 71.184.110.46 (Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:31:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:31:31 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:546 Date: 2008-06-03T13:31:31+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:02:19 -0400, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > How about others? Were you a hobbyist when you learned Ada? Did many > people attend formal training? I was a grad student, and got hooked up with the program verification group at my university. The professor was looking for someone to take over experimentation in implementing Ada tasking from someone else leaving. I sat down in front of the computer, with a draft RM in hand (this was 1981), and learned the Pascal subset in a usable way in a few weeks.