From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada?
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:56:08 +0200
Date: 2008-06-04T09:56:08+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s4to9lqy693d$.9gsad1y6ez7r.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: df8603e3-f095-416b-acc3-f15f128cbc71@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:02:19 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> How about others? Were you a hobbyist when you learned Ada? Did many
> people attend formal training?
I learned about Ada in 1984 or so, when I studied at my university. It was
not lessons, rather colloquium where it was shortly introduced. Ada didn't
impressed me. I was young and preferred PL/1. (:-)) Some time later I
gained the great Gehani's book and this changed everything. Already working
in the labs for remote sensing I feverishly searched for an Ada compiler
for RSX-11M, which we used there, with no success.[*] Nevertheless, when I
started my postgraduate work, I was determined to do it in Ada. I wrote
almost 90% of it without a compiler on paper sheets, before my supervisor
found a firm where I could access a VAX-11 clone with glorious DEC Ada
compiler.
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* I got some horrific five-passes monster, which took 20 minutes to compile
something like "hello world," and implemented less than a half of the
language. I don't know what it was.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2008-05-24 4:53 How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada? Ankur Sethi
2008-05-24 7:58 ` Martin Krischik
2008-05-25 14:33 ` Ankur Sethi
2008-05-26 9:43 ` Sébastien
2008-05-24 8:10 ` mockturtle
2008-05-24 9:04 ` Ankur Sethi
2008-05-24 16:16 ` mockturtle
2008-05-24 9:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-24 15:38 ` Ankur Sethi
2008-05-24 15:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-05-24 16:13 ` Ed Falis
2008-05-24 17:10 ` Michael Feldman
2008-05-25 7:57 ` Paul
2008-05-29 23:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-05-26 9:14 ` Sébastien
2008-05-26 9:04 ` Thomas Locke
2008-05-26 9:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-05-26 12:05 ` Thomas Locke
2008-05-26 18:59 ` Manuel Gomez
2008-05-26 9:38 ` Sébastien
2008-06-01 1:53 ` Adrian Hoe
2008-06-02 10:03 ` Sébastien
2008-06-02 12:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-03 12:02 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-06-03 13:31 ` Ed Falis
2008-06-03 19:48 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-06-04 6:51 ` mockturtle
2008-06-04 7:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-06-04 9:41 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-06-04 12:20 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-06-04 12:43 ` Steffen Huber
2008-06-04 18:36 ` Stefan Bellon
2008-06-04 21:39 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-06-05 2:00 ` tmoran
2008-06-05 8:22 ` Sebastian Hanigk
2008-06-05 20:52 ` Simon Wright
2008-06-09 7:41 ` Sebastian Hanigk
2008-06-05 9:20 ` Sébastien Morand
2008-06-07 6:19 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2008-06-12 3:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-06-12 6:29 ` tmoran
2008-06-12 21:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-06-12 16:01 ` jdpetrey<REMOVE_TO_REPLY>
2008-06-09 16:22 ` ahab
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