Re: Ada student homework ?

[Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com>]

Nobody forces you to answer them.
I personally wouldn't like to ride on an airplane programmed by R.Dewar who would certainly
explained he expected the plane to crash because the compiler behaves as he expects ...
Now some people have the right to believe that they are your victim, when Ada remains
nearly unused in comparison with C or Java, due to Ada world reputation.

Larry Kilgallen wrote :

> In article <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com>, Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com> writes:
> >> <Finally he gets someone to do his homework for him ...>
> >
> > Does everybody here making a student homework hunting ?
> > There is often despising and rude posts towards supposingly 'students
> > homework'
> >
> > I don't think most people take really the time to check if it is really
> > a homework or not before answering like that (commenting is more
> > appropriate than answering)
> > Experienced programmers starting Ada are likely to ask homework like
> > questions (not so bad after all to learn Ada)
> > Have this kind of people, giving lessons to everybody, tried a language
> > they absolutely don't know, and how would they take this kind of
> > reaction ?
> >
> > Even if this is a homework, are you their teachers ?
>
> No, I am their victim if they learn Ada poorly.
>
> When I see a "homework" question, the issue of whether they are in a
> degree-granting program or not is rather minor.
>
> I don't want to end up maintaining code written by somebody who did
> not try to understand the underlying principles of the language.
>
> But I _really_ don't want to ride on an airplane they programmed.