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: 103376,71d1fdde81c072f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mitch@nospam.com Subject: Re: Computer Programming for Everybody? Date: 1999/09/12 Message-ID: <7ri1ls$1rf9@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 524350079 References: <7rbkm4$pn6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: None Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Brian says... > >Better than what? Ada? Yes. Python is a lot easier to learn than Ada, IMO. >Of course, I'm not a grade-schooler :-). > Easier to learn does not make something better :) It would be possible to teach a small subset of Ada to high school students. I think that Ada teaches better programing habits than most other quick-and-easy languages. I wonder why they did not choose Java as it is the hotest things these days. most books and most seminars and speakers. Java for example, is easy to learn, and one can quickly start writing working programs in it, but Java does not teach good programming habits, actually I've seen worst programming code in java than in any other language (except may be in VB). Java is like the Visual Basic of OO languages, quantity over quality is what it is. I've seen Java programmers who do not understand what is a 'RECORD'. The power of OO at its best right there. What is the programming world comming to, I wonder. What we need is a book called 'Ada for dummies' and 'Ada in 21 days' to help make Ada more popular. (I always wondered why they picked the number 21 days? what is so special about 21 days? why not 22 days?). cheers, Mitch.