From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: Resources for teaching a child Ada ?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:44:56 -0500
Date: 2003-01-02T12:44:56-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E147A98.7060206@cogeco.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: zMXQ9.2325$c6.2501@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com
Wes Groleau wrote:
>> what you want to do. For some things Ada sucks, for some things Java
>> sucks. They're not superiour to one another just better at one thing
>> which the other isn't. I would agree that Ada is (IMO) a better
>
> Having just gotten a 97% in my first formal Java class,
> I'd have to say that for the pedagogical assignments,
> Ada would have been slightly better for most of them.
>
> Java was better for the O-O features, but _only_ because
> they were designed for Java's confusion between encapsulation
> device and inheritance device.
>
> More than once I noted that the assignment begged
> for Ada's enumeration types, numeric derived types,
> and/or subtypes.
And how about the lack of dispatching
based upon return types?
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-24 23:56 Resources for teaching a child Ada ? faust
2002-12-24 23:01 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-24 23:48 ` David Wright
2002-12-25 14:55 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-25 0:36 ` chris.danx
2002-12-25 0:45 ` David Starner
2002-12-25 21:12 ` faust
2002-12-26 20:53 ` Stefan Skoglund
2003-01-02 14:11 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-02 17:44 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2003-01-02 18:37 ` Wes Groleau
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