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Michal Nowak wrote:
> Another issue when learning a programming language is if the learner
> likes it. Maybe that is why learning Ada came rather easily to me.

I know I have a visceral dislike for the Pascal-style languages.
Pascal, Modula-N, Oberon, Ada - they all just rub me the wrong
way when I look at them. It's hard for me to appreciate that Ada
is intended to be reader-friendly when my brain is going "yuck"
whenever I look at some code.

Hmm. Wirth, Ichbiah, you - maybe it's some sort of Europe/America
thing :-)