From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public From: Corey Barcus Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal SUCK, C,C++, and Java are the only languages you need!! Date: 1997/10/30 Message-ID: <34589A30.90A2BE61@wolfenet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286751774 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> Reply-To: fromhell@wolfenet.com Organization: Simpler Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Black wrote: > ADA and Pascal are two of the most useless inventions Man has ever > wasted space on this planet with. These languages are hard to learn, > have zero applications, and people who only know these languages can > only find jobs at Taco Bell! Smart programmers spend their time > learning only C, C++, and Java in that order. This is total hyperbole. Ada is used heavily in the US DoD, probably many other places. Pascal has its current incarnation in a product called Delphi (from Borland of course) that is a very good tool for building Windows applications. Why not dispense with this ignorant and inflamatory position? Instead ask others if Ada is indeed difficult to learn as you suspect (coming from a C/C++/Java background I found it somewhat confusing), where it's used, where's Pascal used, etc. I'm sure advocates of these other languages would be more than happy to give you answers. It may very well be that C/C++/Java is best suited for what you endeavor to do. It would be well to know that there are many ways to program and some languages are much better suited to particular problems. There are reasons why languages like Forth, ML, Prolog, Smalltalk, Lisp, etc exist. If you want to learn something, it's better to try and formulate a question. -- Corey Barcus Simpler Software corey@simplersw.com