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711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> writes:
> What degree of learning curve is there to learn Ada, coming from a
> Pascal background? What kind of rough timeframes to get comfortable with
> programming without always looking to the manuals?

Ada is not that hard to get started with, but it has orders of magnitude
more stuff in it than Pascal does, and getting familiar with all the
intricacies is a big task.  I've fooled with Ada a little, I consider
myself a language geek, I've been following this newsgroup on and off
for years, but I can't understand that many of the discussions I see
here.

If I wanted to do something serious with Ada, I'd start by working
through an in-depth textbook rather than just an intro or tutorial.

For just getting started, I used "Ada Distilled" (easy to find online).
It is pretty good, but there is an enormous amount of material that it
doesn't cover.