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From: dasmith@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (David Smith (GE))
Subject: Ada as a beginning language
Organization: Univ. of South Florida, College of Engineering
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 03:34:31 GMT
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I am a Computer Science student at the University of South Florida in
Tampa.  We now use Ada as the intro programming language for the program.

I have been formally taught Pascal, C, adn Assembly and do most of my
programming in Think Pascal, in which I am most comfortable.  From 
what I have used Ada for (remember it IS and intro class) it seem very
similar to Pascal other than the extremly tight type checking.

I would like anyones option on Ada as the first/intro language for Computer
Science.  My option is that the strong types, and other structures frustates
new programers, as many of my classmates have been.  (and why is 0/=0.0?)

Thanks to all.

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