Introduction:
This document is written primarily for C and C++ programmers and is set out to describe the Ada programming language in a way more accessible to them. I have used the standard Ada documentation conventions, code will look like this and keywords will look like this. I will include references to the Ada Reference Manual in braces and in italics, {1.1}, which denotes section 1.1. The ARM is reference 1 at the end of this document. Another useful reference is the Lovelace on-line tutorial which is a great way to pick up Ada basics.This compiler is based on the well known GCC C/C++ and Objective-C compiler and provides a high quality Ada-83 and Ada-95 compiler for many platforms.
I will start out by describing the Ada predefined types, and the complex types, and move onto the simple language constructs. Section 2 will start to introduce some very Ada specific topics and section 3 describes the new Ada-95 Object Oriented programming constructs. Section 5 describes the Ada tools for managing concurrency, the task and protected types, these are worth investing some time getting to grips with. Section 6 is a tour of the Ada IO library and covers some of the differences in concept and implementation between it and C stdio.Please feel free to comment on errors, things you don't like and things you would like to see.
Book Link:
http://www.adahome.com/Ammo/cpp2ada.html
