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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Annoyances
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 00:40:14 +0100
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Jeffrey R. Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> On 06/29/2017 01:18 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>> Pascal Was perfect language for learning and
>> teaching also.
> 
> 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?

beginners that Ada got right. The "Pascal 
> subset" of Ada with packages seems like an excellent first language, though.
> 

I still think Ada is a better teaching language than Pascal.