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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/21 Message-ID: <4gejp7$o23@mailhub.scitec.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140379948 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <3114d8fb.5a455349@zesi.ruhr.de> <4f5h5t$f13@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4g1bgf$l5@mailhub.scitec.com.au> <4g95c4$bhp@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ organization: SCITEC LIMITED, Sydney, Australia. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote: > ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) writes: > >Another thing not mentioned is that Ada is far more complicated to learn > >fully than is C/C++. The complexity of the language can add to an increase > >in the probabilty of bugs being introduced and also adds to an increase in > >project maintanace costs. > It is true that Ada (95) is harder to learn fully than C. > It is FALSE that Ada (95) is harder to learn fully than C++. > Since I posted the above, I've been flamed by every man and his dog. The comment was based on something I was told at UNI by one of the lecturers, and not out of my own experience. I realise it was a stupid comment, however, I wasn't attempting to put Ada down. I've also received mail messages from people out there, and in particular, one who stated that I could probably learn Ada in about one week. I really don't know how difficult the language is to learn, however, from what you all have said about it, I'm interested in learning it. Can anyone suggest any good books on it (one that reasonably priced) and possibly a good compiler for a PC. Also, according to many of the postings, I'm being given the impression that there are plenty of engineering jobs for Ada. I've been looking in the job ads (in Sydney, Australia) and I can't seem to find many Ada jobs (as compared with C and C/C++ jobs) for engineers. I'm interested to know where these jobs are. Ramses.