Ada Advocacy - Team-Ada

Ada Advocacy - Team-Ada

[David Botton]

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:
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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

Re: Ada Advocacy - Team-Ada

[Alex R. Mosteo]

David Botton wrote:
> 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 tried to subscribe using the procedure described in the FAQ and
I've got this reply:


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