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: 2002-12-26 12:37:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming? Message-ID: <3vpm0v8j05v3k07qarh8aa7ac5op0utqh9@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 trialware MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 20:37:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.8.24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1040935071 12.73.8.24 (Thu, 26 Dec 2002 20:37:51 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 20:37:51 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32319 Date: 2002-12-26T20:37:51+00:00 List-Id: On 26 Dec 2002 05:23:59 -0800, billtate@usermail.com (W D Tate) wrote: > It's that form of >discipline I wish to discourage. Methinks there are far too many of >these folks running around. But you aren't going to escape it by going to Ada - you can program that way in any language, excluding the most evil. In many cases, you will be going from a carefully designed and debugged library in C/C++ to the same library, but with a quickly written binding between you.