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: 103376,6bbfa98449fcf12c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: Is ada usfull in the cumputer world? Date: 1997/01/13 Message-ID: <5bceh8$t9a$1@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 209636097 references: <5bbn22$hdj@cumin.telecom.uqam.ca> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia nntp-posting-user: ok newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: bc591813@er.uqam.ca writes: >I'm starting a cumputer science programme and ada is the language will use >to lurn how to program cuputer.. will it be usfull??? Yes, Ada will be useful. Very useful. But with the utmost possible respect, there is a language that will be even *more* useful to you. English. The single most important skill a programmer needs is _mastery_ of his or her native language. If that language is not English, then English skill comes second. When it comes to programming languages, the most important thing about your introductory course is actually your teacher. If your teacher is a good programmer who thoroughly understands the language used and enjoys teaching it to you, you probably won't go far wrong. If your course uses the best language in the world (Haskell) but the teacher would rather be using INTERCAL, you're going to have trouble. (Ok, so Ada is as good as Haskell. They actually have a lot in common.) -- My tertiary education cost a quarter of a million in lost income (assuming close-to-minimum wage); why make students pay even more? Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.