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-Thread: 103376,c53f5499f68e754b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Considering taking an ADA course at uni Date: 26 Jun 2004 01:42:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5ad0dd8a.0406260042.b16d07f@posting.google.com> References: <57e2fa45142078b5f24fed4f75996ae0@news.teranews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.27.40.215 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1088239372 29058 127.0.0.1 (26 Jun 2004 08:42:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1913 Date: 2004-06-26T01:42:52-07:00 List-Id: "Zork" 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