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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b2d36a382ccbeb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada? Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 09:43:24 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <483A863C.9090407@gmail.com> References: <2ee634c3-0dee-4f02-8b02-c4804efd068f@x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <2352454.BYjyn0gJR2@linux1.krischik.com> <02b7ddb7-d271-4dad-addb-49838eafcc24@z16g2000prn.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX19bdTp5+NG+FtjYSe2w+gYtIvjNiTRVUFn/P793sJqCruq1rPawKv5I/SaQDH4twkiQXnjej6ifuJ3zHfKV0kfinCD+ZUk9OipkuWMZ0es19oWLShB439QP1Q1Zdn9djhJpoUi9wphOKg== X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 09:43:30 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+FJsFx7uxYIQXtqge4dJLuILxbu7kJ3gMGSkbsyFIjZA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:quwZzDWNkzDf2WWmp1Vpvxwl5nw= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:364 Date: 2008-05-26T09:43:24+00:00 List-Id: > I was wondering why more people don't use Ada. So far, it's much > easier than C++ and the compiler errors are 100x friendlier. I mean, > even dynamic languages (Python, I'm looking at you) don't have the > kind of programmer friendly, human readable errors GNAT has been > spitting out. > > Thank you everyone for the help :) I've bookmarked all the links from > this thread. I'll go over them tonight. Yes when you have an error in Ada, the compiler is so nice, it's touching. In most language youo ask yourself "What can i do to correct" in Ada, the compiler tell you what to do, so just do it ;-)