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From: "Eric B. Lemings" <zebl1@etsu-tn.edu>
Subject: Re: What good is Ada ???
Date: 1997/01/05
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Ah Chong wrote:
> 
> I have to take Ada this quarter.
> 
> It is actually Data Structures in Ada.
> 
> But why learn Ada?
> 
> Why not Java ?
> 

I'm still learning both languages but I think I can answer this one:

Ada is a more mature language; it has been standardized since 1983.
And everyone knows that the best language for learning, not necessarily
using, data structures is Pascal, or in this case, a Pascal-like
language.

Java is still growing.  It is incomplete having been specified for
the most part but still being far from implemented.  Sorta like the
draft C++ standard.

Eric Lemings.