From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
Subject: Re: Considering taking an ADA course at uni
Date: 26 Jun 2004 01:42:52 -0700
Date: 2004-06-26T01:42:52-07:00 [thread overview]
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"Zork" <Zork@z.com> wrote in message news:<57e2fa45142078b5f24fed4f75996ae0@news.teranews.com>...
> Would anyone recommend this ada course?
Yes, most people, if not all, on this list.
> Will it help me become a better programmer?
With all its strong typing and subtyping, modularization, etc., it
definitely will. Better programmer, or maybe even a better sotware
engineer! And even if you conclude that Ada sucks, it is good to know
your then enemy.
But I'd also recommend learining some basics of each of these:
- SML or O'Caml (type unions, higher order functions),
- Haskell (type classes),
- aldor (first class types),
- Eiffel (design by contract),
- VDM / Z / TLA+ (specification languages),
- LISP (syntax turns out to be of little relevance),
- prolog (what are your _goals_?),
- Ruby (need to do some very quick'n'dirty script).
Regards,
Wojtek
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2004-06-26 1:31 Considering taking an ADA course at uni Zork
2004-06-26 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-26 8:42 ` Wojtek Narczynski [this message]
2004-06-27 8:27 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-06-27 19:39 ` Zork
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