From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Which language for aerospace engineering freshman?
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:13:35 GMT
Date: 2003-06-01T03:13:35+00:00 [thread overview]
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Sinning Spider wrote:
> Which language should an aerospace engineering freshman entering
> Purdue this Fall 2003 learn now? Ada, C or Java?
Ada can help you learn all kinds of useful software engineering concepts
you won't find in the other 2, or many other places (Eiffel comes to
mind). Once you have the S/W engineering concepts you can apply them in
any language. Concentrate on packages, generics, tasks, and protected
objects at first. Access types, tagged types, and streams seem to have a
lot of implementation details that beginners get bogged down in.
--
Jeff Carter
"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it
while the first legion marched across. If programmers today
worked under similar ground rules, they might well find
themselves getting much more interested in Ada!"
Robert Dewar
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2003-05-31 10:49 Which language for aerospace engineering freshman? Sinning Spider
2003-05-31 12:56 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-31 15:06 ` Rod Chapman
2003-06-01 3:13 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2003-06-01 8:23 ` steve_H
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