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: 103376,19e983c5955f75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-04 11:20:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!news.tele.dk!195.224.53.60!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ACB6286.181416F@ntlworld.com> From: "martin.m.dowie" Reply-To: martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Learning Ada (newbie) References: <9af9ao$6ee$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 19:05:58 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.13.7 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 986407771 62.253.13.7 (Wed, 04 Apr 2001 19:09:31 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 19:09:31 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6469 Date: 2001-04-04T19:05:58+01:00 List-Id: Well, not all "cutting edge"/linux/hacker-types go for this - www.slashdot.org had a reasonably Ada-favourable thread a while back. Maybe GNAT with its GNU links and Open Source background are helping break the ice a little... Ayende Rahien wrote: > 3. I read in Jargon File that "hackers find Ada's exception handling & > inter-process communication particularly hilarious." among other stuff. Why > is that? What are the advantages & disadvantages of Ada compare to C or C++ > and other languages?