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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!c03.atl99!news.usenetserver.com!news02.tsnz.net!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!ken-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in colleges and universities. References: From: I R T Message-ID: <65a1ie1n.fsf@pop-server.bigpond.net.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CMKOfmkHu6NnfSAQzUxzkGvvc9w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 03:52:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.239.63 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1086753123 144.132.239.63 (Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:52:03 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:52:03 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1260 Date: 2004-06-09T03:52:03+00:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson writes: > I'd say you're not a good > programmer until you've tried at least two different languages, > because only then will you be able to see the weaknesses in a > language. But ( to play devils advocate ) why should the second one be Ada ? Why not Java ( for practicality ) or Ocaml or Smalltalk ( for something totally different) ?