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Who's Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language

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Re: Who's Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language

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Post by claystu »

cjensen wrote: post #65
claystu wrote: post #56

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When you get started, here are the two books that seem to get recommended the most frequently: Ada as A Second Language: http://amzn.com/0070116075 Programming in Ada 2005: http://amzn.com/0321340787

I have an old copy of 'Ada as A Second Language'. It's like a million pages. A second language handbook shouldn't be thicker than K&R. Do you know any short books that really assume I already know how to program?

I don't know of any short books on Ada. Given the language, and the fact it's still growing, I doubt there are any.

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Post by krylon »

claystu wrote: post #71
cjensen wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an old copy of 'Ada as A Second Language'. It's like a million pages. A second language handbook shouldn't be thicker than K&R. Do you know any short books that really assume I already know how to program?

I don't know of any short books on Ada. Given the language, and the fact it's still growing, I doubt there are any.

There is a Wikibook on Ada, although I cannot say anything about its quality.

Also, the Ada language standard and the rationale document are available for free. The standard is really more useful as a reference document, but it is surprisingly readable for a standards document.

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Post by zerr »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #69
zerr wrote: post #61

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Yes, but in those types of organizations remote jobs aren't really encouraged.

Though it would be cool if you could SSH into an A320 flight management computer from your apartment :-)

Or they could borrow me one for some time... :)

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Post by mtimjones »

I worked on two geosynchronous communication satellites built on Ada (late 1980s using the TLD compiler). Both had a maximum of 48KB of ROM and 16KB of RAM. That included attitude control, command, telemetry, thermal/power management, fault manager, and little OS.

Since then, I've done pretty much nothing but C, but I do miss Ada's features from time to time.

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