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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed-hp2.netcologne.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH 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> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:56:08 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 04 Jun 2008 09:56:08 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 5b9f5a47.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=MPFJHo?M:65nBOkdL^Lo7>A9EHlD;3Yc24Fo<]lROoR18kF7enW;^6ZC`4IXm65S@:3>?gKJ3c527Fh4 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:557 Date: 2008-06-04T09:56:08+02:00 List-Id: 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. ---------- * 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