Re: Ada == Pascal?

[sparre@meyer.fys.ku.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen)]

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bjgreene@acsu.buffalo.edu wrote:
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| This may be something that has been asked before, but forgive me, I just
| found this newsgroup recently. My question: Is Ada similar to Pascal?
| The reason I ask is that I have to take a class that may require me to
| know Ada. I've taken Pascal, so am I allright, then?
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I would say that you're probably in good shape for learning Ada.

Ada and Pascal source code looks much the same (a bit more words in Ada 
though :-),�but Ada includes both posibilities and limitations not known
in Pascal.

If you want a soft introduction to Ada, you should start out with the Lovelace
tutorial (availiable at Ada Home <URL:http://www.adahome.com/>).

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| P.S. Is Ada some sort of military/nasa code or something?
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The old version of Ada (usually known as "Ada 83") was developed _for_ the
Department of Defence, U.S.A. - The present version of Ada (sometimes called
"Ada 95") was developed as an international standard.

I suppose the answer to the question is; "it was!"


Greetings,

Jacob
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