Re: Ada student homework ?

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

Ted Dennison Wrote

> I don't think so. If I can be brutally honest here, anyone who has that
> much trouble figuring out how an "if" statement works will *never* be a
> programmer, Ada or otherwise.
>
> This might be a reasonable issue to bring up in one of those "You don't
> do bit masking in Ada, you dummy you." threads. But this is not one of
> those threads. In fact, the tone there generally seems to be more like
> what you are looking for.

I think this is like advertising.
Excellent advertising for quite bad product can be very profitable.
Poor advertising for an excellent product leads usually to spectacular
failure.

You'll never make the most stupid student programmer become a good one
being aggressive or despising, but doing that you can give a bad image and
make potential good one go away.
There no benefit, and potential loss.

If you ever have to promote something to somebody, it's not a good idea to
tell him he is stupid, even if that is true.

It's quite well known in software development (but may be not enough in Ada
community) that Ada advertising is not especially a success story.