From: groth@chariot.net.au (Gareth)
Subject: Re: Forget about ada and start learning something like java ,visual basic and c++
Date: 2000/02/07
Date: 2000-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <389e1086.1666128@news.chariot.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 389dd963@netmonnt.wans.net
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 15:27:52 -0500, "wsheehannews" <wsheehan@wans.net>
wrote:
>From someone out of work since Halloween who
>developed in ADA. You are right!!!
>
>Learn Java.
>Learn Java.
>Learn Java.
>
>Get the Idea? Learn Java.
>AT least learn Visual Basic or something marketable!!!
If you can program in Ada, you can learn to program in Java.
As a test for the third year students last year, the lecturers decided
to "suddenly" intruduce Java for a large-scale final year project
(designed for the Computer Science students, but the Engineering
students did it also).
We had two weeks to learn the language in order to begin the project,
and since Java uses OOP, etc.... it was just a matter of learning the
syntax and the rest just fell in place from our knowledge of Ada and
with the help of a good Java book.
I've never attempted C++, but since Java was partially derived from
the C++ syntax, I'd assume C++ would be even easier to learn for me.
And as for Visual Basic... I never did like that language - but then
again, I don't like programming on the Windows platform. It's just too
mainstream for me, and "every man and his dog" is learning VB (and
C++).....
... so you may think that by not learning VB or the other "marketable"
languages, I'm not going to be able to find a job - but as long as
people still have real-time systems running Ada, they'll always be a
need for Ada programmers.
And even though I am reasonably good with Java, and will learn C++
before I graduate, if I was going to program I'd do it in Ada -
programming for mission-critical environments is much more exciting
than sitting in a large room with a thousand other typing monkeys
producing Microsoft code.
(Although I'm actually supposed to be an engineering student, so I'm
majoring in digital VLSI design - in other words, microprocessor
design, not programming, so I'll probably end up designing hardware).
- Gareth
4th year Engineering student
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-04 0:00 Forget about ada and start learning something like java ,visual basic and c++ HollymaN
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-06 0:00 ` reason67
2000-02-06 0:00 ` wsheehannews
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Gareth [this message]
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Gareth
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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