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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cf86c450b827479 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-12 11:58:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada Date: 12 Apr 2001 14:54:29 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Message-ID: References: <3AD5CDDD.8E028CB4@libero.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 987102552 7317 128.183.220.71 (12 Apr 2001 19:09:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: dscoggin@cne-odin.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Apr 2001 19:09:12 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.6 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6834 Date: 2001-04-12T19:09:12+00:00 List-Id: GianLuigi Piacentini writes: > I'm a Fortran9x programmer, with some experience/exposure to C, too. > I would like to learn Ada, and use it to program PC (under Win > 95/98/NT4/2000) and industrial PC under DOS, for automation > applications. I foresee the need to do some Windows programming, and > also to send/receive characters via the serial port. > I understand that at some time I should upgrade to a commercial > compiler, but I would like to show Ada's capabilities, so I could > justify an Ada compiler versus a C or VB compiler. > > Do you have any suggestion, pointers to book, on-line tutorials and so > on ? http://users.erols.com/leakstan/Stephe/index.html See "com ports" and "Windex". That's the third time today I've posted my website; must be a record! > Apologizing for my english, Many thanks in advance Gigi Piacentini You're welcome. -- -- Stephe