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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,751d508677a5add1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: mahdert Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1c6d350c-e5f4-48a2-b183-7fefe7e207dc@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> References: <8f469661-370c-4484-82d8-f1b365455e0f@w12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.49.32.136 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1277876570 26363 127.0.0.1 (30 Jun 2010 05:42:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.49.32.136; posting-account=4ubCJQoAAAAHuHZJ8mjjd5mQik7qvgC2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.86 Safari/533.4,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12988 Date: 2010-06-29T22:42:50-07:00 List-Id: On Jun 30, 1:33=A0am, "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote: > On 06/29/2010 10:23 PM, mahdert wrote: > > > When I first started my undergraduate studies as a computer science > > major, I was forced to use ADA in an introductory course.. Mind you I > > was already familiar with C++ at that time..but after dealing with ADA > > and compilet time errors for about a year, I decided to change my > > major to mech eng.. > > In order to respond meaningfully to your post, we need to know which ADA = you > were exposed to that had such an effect on you. Was it American Dental > Association or Americans with Disabilities Act? > > -- > Jeff Carter > "Blessed is just about anyone with a vested interest in the status quo." > Monty Python's Life of Brian > 73 LOL.. it was GNAT ADA 95..