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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk______>
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Subject: Re: Best ada books?
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 00:30:07 +1000, Alex Gibson wrote:

> Okay this is always a bit of a subjective question asking about
> programming books but usually worth asking anyway.
> 
> If you had a choice of two ada books which would it be.
> 
> This is for someone(me) with intermediate knowedge(2 to 5 years)
> in a few other languages including c ,c++, java ,fortran(90 and 95) and
> others.
> Currently learning and using vhdl.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Alex Gibson

nobody mentioned this book, it has been updated to Ada95 now, but I have
the Ada9X version and it is very good; I used it at uni.

Ada From the Beginning by Jan Skansholm

ISBN: 0-201-62448-6 Although this'll probably be different now.

Luke.