From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Ada Advocacy - Team-Ada
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:56:59 -0500
Date: 2004-11-24T19:56:59-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2004112419565916807%david@bottoncom> (raw)
For those of you that are not familiar there is an e-mail list called
Team-Ada (see the Ada FAQ - http://www.adapower.com/faq - but to make
things short you join by sending the word subscribe to
team-ada@acm.org) where Ada advocacy is discussed.
I've started this evening on the list the first of what I hope will be
many of my suggestions to Juice Up Ada (There was certainly tons of
Juice flowing when the Juice was on trial, perhaps we can get some
going with Ada a bit on trial).
I've posted the following (Please join and respond on Team-Ada@acm.org
for this one):
Welcome to the Team-Ada group therapy session #1
Suggestion #1:
--------------------
A good article written not for academics or professionals, but to
newbies that are just getting in to or interested in programing in
general as to why Ada should be the language they embrace and learn
first (We all know not to learn Basic first ;-).
Think, if you were a student, would you want to learn anything but
Java or C++ given the current marketplace.
Most would rather learn almost any language in the world rather than
Ada, Cobol or Fortran....
Personally, I started by doing stuff like looking up on a chart of 8080
instructions and poking the values in memory using trs-80 basic after
converting from hex to decimal, but I am a certified freak who had
nothing better to do when all his friends had Apple and Comodores, and
was nine years old and not thinking about a job, the future, etc...
Other are another matter:
So, the AdaPower challenge for the night - Why should any one learn Ada
as their first language?
Lets go, whose in for a post :-)
David Botton
Love it or hate it, but be passionate about it! Nothing gets done when
you just don't care.
-- David Botton
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