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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public From: Christopher Eltschka Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal SUCK, C,C++, and Java are the only languages you need!! Date: 1997/11/03 Message-ID: <345E1466.1C6E47BB@physik.tu-muenchen.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287687278 Distribution: world References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-03T00:00:00+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. Sorry, I have to disagree very much. 1. Ada and Pascal are not useless. You might f.ex. think that space rockets are useless; but there's probably a good reason they are programmed in Ada, and not in C... 2. Smart programmers learn Pascal first (because then they learn *programming*, not hacking). Next they go on to C++, as doing C first would be a waste of time (and learning C++ first will make you a better C programmer later, as well). Then they have a look at other languages (functional, logical, ...) so they get used to other paradigms as well. And they learn some Assembler, so they have a clue about what's going on beyond the surface of their programming language. Someone who doesn't want to know anything but C, C++ and Java can't be called a smart programmer (s.o. who only wants to know about Pascal can't be called one, as well, though).