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From: "Lucretia" <lucretia9@lycos.co.uk>
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> > Are you saying that C is more modern than Ada ?! You must be a fashion (or

Wel yes and no...

;-D

> More Java and Python and the like.  Although you have to admit far more
> students will know about C than Ada.  I pretty sure I heard it
> mentioned once in my undergrad, and that was the prof in the OS class
> asking if anyone had ever used it.

Well, I had to learn it at university and I have to say, I found it to
be really easy at uni, and only when I relearnt it later on did I find
it more difficult.

> To the rest thanks.  I think I'm getting it now.
> I found Ada Distilled today though this group and that makes the
> transition a little easier.
> I've been trying to use "Ada as a 2nd Language", and while it's really
> indepth, it's difficult to understand if you're used to the C/Java way

I was already used to the C/C++ way before I went to uni, so I'm not
too sure that's the reasoning.

Luke.