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Subject: Re: Current recommendations for learning Ada?
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On 03/21/2018 11:17 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Is there a currently recommended go-to publication (preferably online)
> for experienced programmers interested in using Ada (preferably Ada
> 2012)?  I've found some introductory articles that were enough to get me
> started, and I felt able to write useful code.  But it occurs to me that
> I still can't make any sense of most of the discussions on this
> newsgroup, which are about more advanced topics than an intro article
> would cover (like all this stuff about access types).

I recommend /Ada Distilled/, available from

http://www.adaic.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Ada-Distilled-24-January-2011-Ada-2005-Version.pdf

It's ISO/IEC 8652:2007, but you should be able to learn the differences between 
it and Ada 12 easily.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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