From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: newbie, Spark 2014 or Ada 2012
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 19:16:48 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-07-05T19:16:48-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20b5dc14-cc75-41b7-ba1f-93235cca1876@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <974c8db0-c9e8-49d4-8db1-3417ec49217b@googlegroups.com>
If you learn Ada well you will be a better programmer in any imperative language. So if this is about hobbies, it is the better choice since you can convert your skills in to any other imperative language easily. It offers the widest ability to express your ideas. D is not far behind (and in many areas offers more), but lacks the rigidity that will help you go from programmer to engineer.
As for Spark, it has a very specific niche, but not a first choice or general purpose.
The other languages you list offer little educational / personal growth benefit, but once you know Ada well can just step in to them when you need to.
If the goal is dollars and not personal growth, your probably better off learning Python and then Java.
David Botton
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2015-07-06 0:28 newbie, Spark 2014 or Ada 2012 nomadlite
2015-07-06 1:30 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-06 7:04 ` nomadfate
2015-07-06 7:20 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-06 7:50 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-07-06 18:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-06 9:34 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-06 16:19 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-06 22:37 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-07 1:30 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-07 9:35 ` darkestkhan
2015-07-07 17:26 ` David Botton
2015-07-07 3:46 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-07-07 8:24 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-07 8:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-07-07 18:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-07 22:56 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-08 19:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-08 22:57 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-09 17:59 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-09 20:10 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-09 20:22 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-09 20:41 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-09 21:59 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-09 22:37 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-09 22:55 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-09 23:25 ` Paul Rubin
2015-07-10 22:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-06 19:20 ` David Botton
2015-07-06 2:16 ` David Botton [this message]
2015-07-06 6:56 ` nomadfate
2015-07-06 19:18 ` David Botton
2015-07-10 22:49 ` nomadfate
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