On 5 May 1996 07:19:04 -0400, johnherro@aol.com (John Herro) wrote:

>If you don't trap and handle it, the Ada program ends gracefully with a
>"Constraint_Error" message, and, with many Ada compilers, it can tell you
>on what line of your program the error occurred.  In other languages,
>attempting to dereference a null pointer crashes the program and causes a
>General Protection Fault on a PC, an Access Violation on a VAX, etc.
>     Ada's Named Parameter Association improves the readability of a call,
>because in the call you can see the names of the formal parameters ("dummy
>arguments") of the subprogram.  In other languages, you have to turn to
>the subprogram to find the names of the formal parameters.
>     Ada's packages enable you to contain the effects of certain program
>changes to a small portion of the entire program, improving
>maintainability.  Trying to explain here how that works would take much
>too long.
>     Ada has many, many other advantages; I cited just a few here.  Permit
>me to post one more reference to my shareware Ada Tutor program, available
>for download at the WWW and FTP sites below my signature, and to mention
>once again the free on-line Ada tutorials at
>http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.html and at
>http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/law/lawhp.html.
>     You'll like Ada, and you'll find the people at comp.lang.ada eager to
>help you.
>- John Herro
>Software Innovations Technology
>http://members.aol.com/AdaTutor
>ftp://members.aol.com/AdaTutor
>MUSIC is easier to read when written in C.
>SOFTWARE is easier to read when written in Ada!

Thanks, I checked out one of the tutorial site, I agree Ada's source
is easier to read than in C. But what platform will Ada program run
on? Does it do multimedia, graphics, etc? 

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