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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/01 Message-ID: <390DEE50.6EC6E48F@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 617991577 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <01HW.B4BFC2820005B06B08A24140@news.pacbell.net> <20000204073443.24976.00001288@ng-ci1.aol.com> <87euk0$c93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01HW.B4C1346100072D2408A24140@news.pacbell.net> <949867976.281549@the-rowan.albatross.co.nz> <8766v93w66.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E8C81A.AA62CF4C@HiWAAY.net> <7EA1B852F5D4D8C6.26EEE9181C80F0DF.0161EA2D9C353253@lp.airnews.net> <01HW.B51C1B6E00F41C2D04BB51B0@news.pacbell.net> <38F796B2.A99A206A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <38F7A27A.4F7729FA@raytheon.com> <8eclae$afj$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <4F706057FEE2A550.BF5FE19AE279EFCD.A55706B3F9D07043@lp.airnews.net> <8eiv08$820$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <390D001C.7433140B@netwood.net> <390D47A3.740E3FD1@online.no> <8ejij1$6ib$1@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 957214322 130.67.235.181 (Mon, 01 May 2000 22:52:02 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 22:52:02 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > > Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen a �crit dans le message > <390D47A3.740E3FD1@online.no>... > >That is not true. More people know how to program in Ada this year than > >last year. Because a lot of people learn Ada as their first programming > >language (thanks to gnat). Even here in Norway it is moving in that > >direction. And in the (norwegian) programming groups there seem to be a > >concensus that pascal like programming languages are far better than C > >languages, at least when one tries to learn to program. > > > > I agree with you that Ada is a very good first programming language. Here is > a paradox that has always puzzled me. A lot of peoples agree that: > > - Ada is very good first programming language > > - Ada is very good for high quality, safety critical, large scale softwares > > Why is there so little Ada projects in the middle ? > It takes time. Remember there was "not much" C stuff out there for a long time. Only after FSF started rolling do we get the really big C revolution. Simplified you could say that people spendt a lot of time with just C, lex, yacc and make. Greetings,