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,a1cabe8166ddcbb8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-02 09:49:55 PST Message-ID: <3E147A98.7060206@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Resources for teaching a child Ada ? References: <1fsh0vss3dblbs9hm21vendb9arhvvrk90@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:44:56 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1041529496 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:44:56 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:44:56 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32451 Date: 2003-01-02T12:44:56-05:00 List-Id: 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? -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg