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Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students
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On 11 Out, 01:15, Jeffrey Creem <j...@thecreems.com> wrote:
> Too OO is an interesting topic.

It is a fascinating topic :-)

I've ruled out Java immediatly when I saw that a nice imperative
algorithm must start with

package public class ... or whatever

---nothing to do with the logic of the algorithm.

By the same token I exclude full OO with Ada

type What_Type is abstract tagged null record with private... or
whatever.

OO is many things. Information hiding I teach soon in the course. But
that existed before OO. Like reuse.

OO maybe the right idiom for full fledge event driven GUIs, Gtk, Qt,
all seem to be highly OO. For this first course I envisage limited
imperative things like Get_Text_1 --- waits for text input on textbox
1 (waits that user presses Commit).