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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-02 20:02:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A52A4BE.786EAA6B@worldnet.att.net> From: William Starner Reply-To: billeug@worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What to Do? References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50F89E.414673FE@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 04:00:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.80.25.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 978494440 12.80.25.112 (Wed, 03 Jan 2001 04:00:40 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 04:00:40 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3603 Date: 2001-01-03T04:00:40+00:00 List-Id: Lao Xiao Hai wrote: > My friend was as surprised as I. One of the good things that has happened is > the free availability of GNAT along with its source code. There are actually > students out there learning about compilers and languages by downloading GNAT > and examining its implementation. I, for one, picked up Ada after reading J.P. Barnes' book on Ada and playing around with GNAT. I probably wouldn't have used Ada had it not been for GNAT, not having a spare few hundred dollars to spare playing around with a language. > Upon being introduced to the Department Chair that same day, I learned that he > despised Ada. To his arteriosclerotic mind Ada was old, clunky, hard to > understand, irrelevant, expensive, and just not worth the time. I don't know if this is specific to Ada. I know a senior professor who thinks Fortran 77 is the height of programming languages and that there's no reason to use any other language. -- David Starner - dvdeug@hushmail.com (dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org off vacation)