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Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada

4•NoNameHaveI•4h ago
So, good news. After a unexpectedly long absence from employment, I am 95% certain that I will receive an offer for a contract job as a product owner. This position will largely involve supervising the development/maintenance of code written in Ada. Even though I have over a decade of experience with C/C++/Assembly, I have ZERO experience with Ada. I doubt I will be writing much Ada myself, but I believe I will need to learn Ada.

So here are my questions:

1. Reading code is usually pretty straightforward. However, all software requires domain knowledge. When starting a new role, how do you bring yourself up on domain knowledge quickly?

2. If you know Ada, what resources to learn Ada do you recommend?

3. What Ada pitfalls do you advise to look out for?

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orionblastar•4h ago
I learned Ada in 1990. It looks like it was based on Pascal. I used Janus Ada for DOS. There is a free Learn Ada ebook here: https://learn.adacore.com/pdf_books/courses/intro-to-ada.pdf

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