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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,820de86ed0dafb8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Johnston Subject: Re: Help Me Please :) Date: 2000/03/01 Message-ID: <38BCB4C4.329F0420@mindspring.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 591638652 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38BC4736.509B1FD@port.ac.uk> <38BC5A3C.7D9B1810@raytheon.com> <38BC7A6E.EC5DE68B@mindspring.com> <89i8mm$vmd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en X-Server-Date: 1 Mar 2000 06:14:22 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-01T06:14:22+00:00 List-Id: > Well if you are so narrow in your exposure to languages that > you know only C, it will be *really* good experience to learn Well, there he goes again... (g)... but you did post a very helpful reply to the originator of this thread... so we will think nice thoughts about you for a while... My first language was fortran 4. back in 76. My first love was pascal (I know you will have fun with that one); I have been doing c for the last 5 years, although most of my time has been spent debugging c/ada83 interfaces... You would think I would like ada. I dont. > another language. Any competent programmer should be able to > acquire the *syntax* of another programming language almost Although stated in an unkind way, I have to agree with you. But I guess I am just getting old. I have spent to many hrs in the RM and cohen's book the last two weeks for it to be laziness. > Ironically, this particular point is one where Ada and C are > identical, and if you used "x" instead of 'x' in C you would Very ironic. I did not catch this... at first glance I thought it would work okay... but i didn't pay enough attention...