AdaCore, who are the chief stewards of the official GCC Ada frontend, GNAT, have been publishing weekly "gems" that are extremely informative for years.<p><a href="http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems" rel="nofollow">http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems</a><p>Get started..
Ada actually seems to be a pretty good idea for writing performant, security-critical code that has to link with C libraries... such as crypto libraries. Does anyone have any ideas on why it might not be as good as it looks, past the fact that the absolute latest version is proprietary?
I'm just going to leave this here because it's outrageously funny<p><a href="http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~gb/csc4101/Reading/gigo-1997-04.html" rel="nofollow">http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~gb/csc4101/Reading/gigo-1997-04.html</a>
This is a head scratcher... The most modern educational innovation is being applied for the least modern language. I guess it makes sense. There are lots of in person training programs for Ruby and Python, but not for Cobol or Ada.