* Re: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada
2001-04-12 14:45 Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada GianLuigi Piacentini
@ 2001-04-12 14:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-12 15:16 ` Britt Snodgrass
` (2 subsequent siblings)
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From: Marin David Condic @ 2001-04-12 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
See: http://www.adapower.org/ for numerous resources for Ada. There are
books, tutorials, software examples, links to related sites, etc. We are
also pretty friendly here with respect to answering specific questions about
how various aspects of Ada work.
MDC
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Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
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"GianLuigi Piacentini" <glplps@libero.it> wrote in message
news:3AD5CDDD.8E028CB4@libero.it...
> 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 ?
>
> Apologizing for my english, Many thanks in advance
> Gigi Piacentini
>
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* Re: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada
2001-04-12 14:45 Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada GianLuigi Piacentini
2001-04-12 14:55 ` Marin David Condic
@ 2001-04-12 15:16 ` Britt Snodgrass
2001-04-12 18:54 ` Stephen Leake
2001-04-13 15:32 ` Samuel T. Harris
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From: Britt Snodgrass @ 2001-04-12 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
GianLuigi Piacentini wrote:
>
>
> Do you have any suggestion, pointers to book, on-line tutorials and so
> on ?
>
Web Resources: http://www.adapower.com <-- START HERE
http://www.adaic.org
http://www.acm.org/sigada
Compilers: ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/winnt/
http://www.rrsoftware.com/
http://www.aonix.com/content/products/forms/oa_win_demo.html
Books: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen/a3sl.html
http://www.adapower.com/books/
Tutorials: http://adahome.com/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.htm
http://www.adapower.com/learn/
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* Re: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada
2001-04-12 14:45 Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada GianLuigi Piacentini
2001-04-12 14:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-12 15:16 ` Britt Snodgrass
@ 2001-04-12 18:54 ` Stephen Leake
2001-04-13 15:32 ` Samuel T. Harris
3 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Leake @ 2001-04-12 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
GianLuigi Piacentini <glplps@libero.it> 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
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* Re: Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada
2001-04-12 14:45 Fortran programmer wanting to learn Ada GianLuigi Piacentini
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2001-04-12 18:54 ` Stephen Leake
@ 2001-04-13 15:32 ` Samuel T. Harris
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From: Samuel T. Harris @ 2001-04-13 15:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
GianLuigi Piacentini wrote:
>
> 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 ?
>
> Apologizing for my english, Many thanks in advance
> Gigi Piacentini
I once wrote a FORTRAN to Ada translator to facilitate
the porting of some code for a work project several
years ago. My effort got up to the verification testing
stage and then was dropped. A lot of untested functionality
there.
If anyone is interested, I will entertain the notion
of picking it up again.
--
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"
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