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Subject: Ada: A beginners experience
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Greetings,

 I thought that I would offer a quick beginners insights into the Ada world=
.=20
First off, a little background, I am a mature aged first year electronics/a=
utomation engineering student that has taken an interest in real time contr=
ol systems. This has lead me to interest in the Ada language.
I have read books/tutorials that have been written by posters to this group=
 and I am grateful for the resources that are available. I have been trying=
 to learn to program micro-controllers.=20
 I have watched the thread on "Why isn't Ada more popular" and thought that=
 I would give my perspective. Trying to learn to use Ada without the assist=
ance of someone experienced is hard. There are so many problems along the w=
ay, and much of the available documentation assumes background knowledge th=
at most learners would try something easier.=20
 It would seem that the current strategy is to hope that once beginners are=
 experienced enough using arduino or C that they will see the error of thei=
r previous ways and convert to the Ada language. I would argue that to make=
 Ada more popular the barriers to using Ada need to be lowered. At the mome=
nt I spend too much time trying understand how to make my tools work, and n=
ot enough time using my tools.=20

Mike Blake