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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 103376,e5eb8ca5dcea2827 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism Date: 1999/05/21 Message-ID: <37457752.7A73DF4D@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 480551481 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <7i05aq$rgl$1@news.orbitworld.net> <7i28qu$1bc@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard D Riehle wrote: > > The statement, "I find such and such to be counterintuitive," is a > tired old excuse for failing to work hard enough to understand some > idea. It does not apply to languages; especially not to programming > languages. > Dittos! I think this probably also applies to the "first language" theory of programming and explains why lots of programmers accustomed to Fortran had such hostility towards Ada. My first language was Pascal and I found Ada to be quite comfortable, albeit substantially larger. I did quite a bit of Fortran programming, but always keeping in mind Pascal's flow structures, etc., which resulted in much more reliable and easier to understand Fortran code. Yet people I knew who had dealt strictly with Fortran found it difficult to deal with things like defining variables before they used them, lack of common blocks, etc. Programming in a new language definitely requires that you give up your preconceived notions of how something "ought" to look. MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.flipag.net/mcondic