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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9333969071d4358 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Suggestions to a Newbie Date: 2000/08/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 659488063 References: <8ngv4j$ko9$1@news01.cit.cornell.edu> X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 966546909 24.20.190.201 (Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:15:09 PDT) Organization: @Home Network NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:15:09 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >1) A starter's book for a programmer with solid experience in programming Barnes' and Cohen's books, as mentioned elsewhere, and various others. See www.adapower.com >2) A compiler for Windows NT, with a dedicated IDE. Free or commercial Look at www.adapower.com for a list of the compilers for Windows. The only one you can get for $0 with source code is Gnat. You can get either Gnat or ObjectAda (limited version) without support for $0. There are other compilers (listed there) with various price schedules and with various features you may find desirable or undesirable. >Is there a Standard library for Ada? Yes, but it's fairly basic. >Are the libraries provided with Ada portable across several platforms, Depends. The Standard defined libraries should be. But of course each vendor, and lots of other folks, offers various extra stuff which may or may not be portable. A Legendre function routine is likely portable (though perhaps with varying accuracy). A multi-tasking sort might be portable, but have very different performance on different hardware. A library to help make Windows programs is unlikely to work at all on Unix.