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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-25 20:12:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C7B0B13.3080003@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada References: <3wdH7.20135$xS6.32614@www.newsranger.com> <9tqete0gqc@drn.newsguy.com> <3C0924D6.2B5A3087@adaworks.com> <250220022121494455%thehouseofcards@remove.this.part.mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 04:12:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.37.125 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1014696729 12.86.37.125 (Tue, 26 Feb 2002 04:12:09 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 04:12:09 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20434 Date: 2002-02-26T04:12:09+00:00 List-Id: Michael Card wrote: > I was wondering why it is perceived as undesirable to train new > programmers in Ada? Certainly hiring an experienced S/W engineer who > has only done C++ or Java, for example, would not require a significant > additional investment to train them in Ada? If teh language really > offers benefits, wouldn't those benefits more than offset the > relatively small cost of buying 2-3 weeks of intense Ada training for > the programmers? I agree. I have found good C++ programmers to be trainable. I watched one pick up the basics of Ada in about 2 weeks with the help of "Ada as a Second Language". He was using the Aonix compiler and wanted to use the latest Visual Studio for his IDE. No problem. He simply customized Visual Studio and proceded to happily program in Ada. He was amused to discover that the Aonix compiler worked better with the Microsoft debugger than did Visual C++. He found he was able to display more detailed information about arrays when using Aonix. Jim Rogers