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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Annoyances
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 07:29:44 +0200, "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> declaimed
the following:

>Le 05/07/2017 à 01:40, Luke A. Guest a écrit :
>> Jeffrey R. Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
>>> The US Military Academy did a controlled experiment that showed that Ada (83) 
>>> was a better teaching language than Pascal, which they were using at the time. 
>>> Pascal has many well known gotchas for 
>> 
>> What gotchas, apart from dangling else?
>> 
>Arrays of fixed, static size come to mind.
>
>Also, parameter passing needing to be marked as "by value" or "by
>reference" is not an easy concept for beginners.

	And (if it is following Jensen&Wirth 2nd) that weird one record
pre-read I/O scheme.
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