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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,463736f2db43ea62,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:56:59 -0600 From: David Botton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:56:59 -0500 Message-ID: <2004112419565916807%david@bottoncom> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Ada Advocacy - Team-Ada User-Agent: Unison/1.5.2 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.176.74.83 X-Trace: sv3-2SKWn3SjzvLFWzd/fA/pa1akwgr8Q3yvcImjdTOzO32Slo3zXOHcWe2YnVm7AYvEdy67RpAayQ39Oss!xeqdUybl5P0QZC508F7ZxDNFer10bf/FofHOSVQCcxsCXSQp+ZgEqjkjvfIc0A== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.20 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6440 Date: 2004-11-24T19:56:59-05:00 List-Id: 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