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,f6a5f8ca92037dc8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 14:17:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Clueless" Subject: Which docs first? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta4 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:17:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.0.109.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2 1003180635 24.0.109.49 (Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:17:15 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:17:15 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14598 Date: 2001-10-15T21:17:15+00:00 List-Id: 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