Which docs first?

["Clueless" <chris@dont.spam.me>]

Recentely I've been spending alot of time just reading through the LRM and
the Rationale. I'm also planning on going through the GNAT source code(as
per the recommendation found in Aho's Dragon Books).

My question is this...how much time should a novice spend reviewing the
official Ada docs( i.e.  the LRM and the Rationale), and compiler source
code in proportion to the amount of time reading through the tutorials and
text books that are available for newcomers to the language. Books such as
Barnes's "Programming in Ada95" for instance, or the tutorials one finds 
out on the Net? I am assuming that there is nice middle ground somewhere,
where one can become familiar with the guts of the language without
becoming overwhelmed by what may appear on the  surface to be an extremely
complex set of syntax and general language rules.

Any advice?

McDoobie chris@dont.spam.me