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Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
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On 30 June, 08:00, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> mahdert wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
> > When I first started my undergraduate studies as a computer science
> > major, I was forced to use ADA in an introductory course.. Mind you I
> > was already familiar with C++ at that time..but after dealing with ADA
> > and compilet time errors for about a year, I decided to change my
> > major to mech eng..
>
> > Now, after many years, I started to revisit ADA and I seem to catch on
> > to it.. but I feel (i know) its mostly due to my own experience and
> > maturity level..
>
> > So, I have to ask your opinion.. DO you think that the push for
> > universities to use ADA is a big conspiracy among academicians to kill
> > the passion of comp. sci in young students who would like to become
> > software engineers???? I do not see any other reason why..
>
> Sloppy programmers avoid Ada, therefore Ada helps avoid sloppy
> programmers.
>
> The fact that you mention your own maturity in your post says a lot.
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

You should think yourself lucky we had three major languages (I won't
say taught) we were told to use our projects with

1) ML
2) 68000 assembly
3) Ada

so most of us loved Ada