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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-13 05:25:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming? Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:18:33 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3E22AE99.C1FAB8C3@brighton.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1042460229 6052 193.62.183.204 (13 Jan 2003 12:17:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jan 2003 12:17:09 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32961 Date: 2003-01-13T12:17:09+00:00 List-Id: David Wright wrote: > > It seems that there > are three essential threshold requirements, namely: > > 1) A free (preferably) downloadable programming environment that is installs > without fuss and instability ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/ > 2) Good online and hardcopy support (tutorials and textbooks) for a BEGINNER > PROGRAMMER per se, not just beginners with that LANGUAGE http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ > 3) An online community that has a tradition of supporting such beginners to > programming. news:comp.lang.ada > On the other hand, and with the best will in the world, I can�t see that Ada > satisfies ANY of the three criteria above, though I am willing/wanting to be > convinced otherwise. Look around you -- the references above are only examples. (Also see http://www.adapower.com/, http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/ada/index.htm). Convinced yet? ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------