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: 103376,5258d7a814a6504f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-31 20:15:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ED96FD1.30202@spam.com> From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Which language for aerospace engineering freshman? References: <474f5457.0305310249.6163e00@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:13:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.0.142 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1054437215 63.184.0.142 (Sat, 31 May 2003 20:13:35 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:13:35 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38263 Date: 2003-06-01T03:13:35+00:00 List-Id: 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