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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-23 06:29:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.infoave.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15FN9.2313$c6.2612@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:29:17 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1040653757 151.168.133.155 (Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:29:17 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:29:17 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32237 Date: 2002-12-23T09:29:17-05:00 List-Id: > Since you profess to being a beginner and you are working > with Win'98, I would play with the supplied (I think) QBasic > to get a feel for programming. He professes to be a beginner, and yet he has enough insight to see that C, C++, and Java invite "buggy frustration" :-) Actually, as much as I detest the unjustified hype surrounding Java, it might be considered a good _compromise_ between C/C++ and Ada. It prevents _some_ of the badness of the former, but it doesn't have all the power of the latter. And, like it or not, it DOES have a big set of libraries.