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From: Steve Whalen <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>
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On Oct 4, 1:51 am, Mateusz Papiernik <m...@maticomp.net> wrote:

> Ada in many places
> force me to change my mind schemes :)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Mateusz Papiernik, Maticomp Webdesign

Welcome to Ada.  In some ways Ada is like the "opposite" of what he
meant when Professor Edsger Dijkstra's said: "the teaching of BASIC
should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond
recovery.".

Ada makes you think harder about structure and representation, and
helps lead to a better understanding of the problem and the program.
Over time, I think that is a good thing and leads to better programs
and better programmers.

I haven't seen anyone mention the Ada 95 Quality and Style Guide ...
it has many good ideas to help you start to write better Ada
programs.  Not everyone agrees with every "guide" in it, but all the
sections are good things to think about, and will help make you a
better Ada programmer.

There is an online version of the style guide at:

http://www.adaic.org/docs/95style/html/contents.html

and other formats of the same guide are in the directory:

http://adaic.org/docs/95style/

Steve