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: 103376,56250291936154a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alfred Hilscher Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command? Date: 2000/03/30 Message-ID: <38E31580.FBF5E527@icn.siemens.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604245695 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38D771CA.D41AF9B5@port.ac.uk> <8bq7ku$mc8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E0E723.C39C392@quadruscorp.com> <8brfm4$4uc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E240D1.DB36C983@quadruscorp.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Siemens AG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Marin D. Condic" wrote: > We do have to be careful not to confuse the newbies. We should try to > emphasize The Ada Way of programming. I just think we'll win a few more > converts by being willing to say "Yeah, you can do exactly what you > usually do in language X and here's how. But there is a *better* way to > consider that will make your life easier." I totally agree. I'm often told by coleaques "Uuuuhhh, in C/C++/Fortran/Basic... I can do ... When I can't do it in Ada I will not change". Tell them what they want hear, but always show the (better) alternative. Manipulate them until they do it the right way and then let they think that it was their own idea to make it the better way.