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On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 6:07:16 PM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> writes:=20
>=20
> > Jack Davy <jules...@gmail.com> writes:=20
> >=20
> >> I've just started learning Ada and am using the book "Ada95: The Craft=
=20
> >> of Object Oriented Programming", by John English. I know there are=20
> >> plenty of other resources such as the one on Adacore, which covers Ada=
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> >> 2012, but I like the style and flow of this book. Anyway, I was=20
> >> wondering whether anyone in the group has the answers to the end of=20
> >> chapter exercises? The author has now retired and the link to them is=
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> >> dead.=20
> >=20
> > Try here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8k4xxpj5a67s752/adacraft.tar.gz?dl=
=3D0=20
> >=20
> > Nothing like being a pack rat! my hard disk copy is dated 2012-8-25, bu=
t=20
> > I don't know when I retrieved it, must ahve been several computers=20
> > ago. Internal dates up to 2001-07-27. Readme says examples tested with=
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> > GNAT 3.13p!
> Actually, they are at adaic.com:=20
> http://archive.adaic.com/docs/craft/craft.html, see the third bullet poin=
t.

@ Ludovic, thanks for the link to rosettacode; very good source of examples=
. And good to hear that you rate the book highly. There don't seem to be ma=
ny books on Ada, but there is a very recent one for beginners which I will =
probably get to fill in the gaps not covered by "The Craft".  https://www.a=
press.com/gp/book/9781484254271

@ Simon, thanks, but I already have that file. It contains all the code in =
the book but not the answers to the end of chapter questions.=20

By the way, I see the author also wrote a GUI libary for Ada called JEWL, t=
he files for which I have also downloaded. Pity it's for Windows only. I'm =
a Linux user although I do have Win XP on VirtualBox, but I don't believe t=
he current GNAT compiler will run on it.