From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-22 07:09:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:09:03 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: <1082556126.182066@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1082642943.436923@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1082642943 10599 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7412 Date: 2004-04-22T10:09:03-04:00 List-Id: Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote: > And this is also true, but it is not easy to learn about them correctly. > In fact, I think that majority of working programmers aren't able to do so. > And those who are able to learn are, as a rule, deprived from a condensed > explanation of the essentials, short explanation of the fundamental approach. I remember back when I was in college and first learning C, it took me quite a while before I "got" pointers. Then all of a sudden something just snapped and it all made sense.