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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,254187b4e0a87c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Dousette Subject: a question from a newbie... Date: 2000/04/23 Message-ID: <3912C7D1@MailAndNews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 614829524 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Sender: David Dousette Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-InterChange-Posted-By: david.dousette@MailAndNews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I'm currently a Computer Science student, and the current languages they are pushing on us are C/C++ and Java. My uncle likes to tell stories of the days when he programmed in Ada when he was in college and for a while thereafter, so I did some research and found that Ada had both an "83" standard as well as a newer "95" standard. I'm going to have a lot of free time in the summers, and I thought that working on some Ada 95 stuff might be fun, since it's a little different than the mainstream of everyone using C/C++. But anyway, what are the advantages of using Ada over C/C++? Does it generate faster code? More secure code? I heard it either is or used to be used in several government agencies, so I know it's gotta be superior in some way. Please respond via email... thanks! David david.dousette@mailandnews.com