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: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-02 02:03:15 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail
From: john@nospam.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Why is Ada a good choice for an ambitious beginner to
   programming
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 10:04:13 GMT
Message-ID: <3e140e05.3654845@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <au0nld$b0$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>
 <5ad0dd8a.0212210251.63b87aba@posting.google.com>
 <BA2B7F6D.15B9%yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1041501794 1893 158.152.226.81 (2 Jan 2003 10:03:14
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:03:14 +0000 (UTC)
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32442
Date: 2003-01-02T10:04:13+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:40:45 +0000, Bill Findlay
<yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>On 21/12/02 10:51, in article
>5ad0dd8a.0212210251.63b87aba@posting.google.com, "Wojtek Narczynski"
><wojtek@power.com.pl> wrote:
>
>> David,
>> 
>> The advantage of starting in Ada is that you won't acquire bad habits.
>> This is really important.
>> The disadvantage is is that Ada is difficult. Some people may tell you
>> otherwise, they are geniuses creating software for devices that fly to
>> cosmos for a few years now.
>
>400 not-especially-endowed-with-genius CS1 students have
>learned to program using Ada 95 at Glasgow University
>every year since 1996.

Coming from the (presumably) the bloke who co-wrote one of the
definitive Pascal manuals of the late '70s, early '80s, I would
suggest this is quite an endorsement for Ada over Pascal.

For what it's worth, I was taught Pascal at Glasgow University in
around 1983 (as part of an Electronics Engineering degree).

Best Regards
John McCabe

To reply by email replace 'nospam' with 'assen'