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From: Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
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On 12/11/2020 21:24, Shark8 wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 6:41:20 PM UTC-7, azathot wrote:
>>
>> So I can't learn ada from docs online?
> You can.
> But the best Ada resources are books and the Language Reference.
> (The Language Reference is dry, but very readable compared to some of the other standards I've come across.)
> 
> Also, the compiler itself is typically very good because of generally high-quality error messages.
> 

Although the errors can be very confusing sometimes, if you make a big 
mistake...

Chris