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On Sunday, 9 February 2020 17:34:17 UTC, Rick Newbie  wrote:

> I don't know much about those languages but I was a bit puzzled when I 
> looked up if GNAT Ada supprts Rasperry a few weeks ago to see that it 
> only supports an old version. It doesn't seem to be up to date with the 

See https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ for up to date OS with up to date GNAT.

> On the topic of teenage programmers: Although I am not a teenager I am 
> new to Ada. What is repelling is when you read Barne's book and you 
> throw up your arms and think: How am I ever going to master all that?!

It's not the best book for learning, but it's fine for people who know previous Ada's.
 
> But I guess what is true for C++ must be true for Ada as well: People 
> use 20% of the language features 80% of the time. it would be good to 
> find a way to introduce new programmers using these 20% to start with. 
> Barne's book is simply overwhelming for the newcommer since it covers 
> nearly all aspects and you can start out with much less

I wouldn't necessarily say that's true for Ada, there are certainly people using quite a lot of Ada features in their projects. Maybe not all, like DSA, but a lot, like OO, aspects, tasking, interfaces, containers, etc.