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From: faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming?
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:59:44 -0800
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 "Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> ,  emitted these fragments:

>1) "Too complicated" (hmm, and C++ is easy)
>2) "Exceptions, yuck, I want to return a status." (hmm, C++, C# and Java
>seem to like them)

So is C++ the mark to aim for ?

It has been abandoned by the market which moved to Java and may now be
moving on to C#


-- 
natsu-gusa ya     / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato
summer grasses / strong ones          / dreams site
 
Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldier's dreams
(Basho trans. Stryk)