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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b51a6f7c47c132d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk (Tom Wheeley) Subject: Re: Advantages of ADA Date: 1997/04/09 Message-ID: <860627488snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 231996125 References: <5ibs79$l8l$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <860521154snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <1997Apr9.083840.1@eisner> X-Mail2News-User: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-Path: tsys.demon.co.uk Organization: Adventures and Diving Reply-To: tw104@york.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1997Apr9.083840.1@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org "Larry Kilgallen" writes: > In article <860521154snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>, tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk (Tom Wheeley) > writes: > > In article <5ibs79$l8l$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> > > dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU "Dale Stanbrough" writes: > > > >> SiliconJesus writes: > >> > >> "I was wondering if everyone could pitch in and help me write a paper for > >> my CS class. I'm doing a paper on the advantages and disadvanteges of > >> ADA, I know many of the disadvantages and was wondering if you could give > >> me some input on the advantages." > >> > >> It's easier to spell than Pascal or Fortran, but not as easy as C. > > > > But like C, ADA is palindromic. > > Which certainly is an advantage of ADA over Ada ! I'd put it as a disadvantage, as with Ada you are less likely to put things backwards... Of course, if you tell someone you know Ada, they are likely to be impressed that you know a language which most people haven't heard of, and thus haven't suffered from :-) Anyway, everyone knows that the development of Ada was sponsored by keyboard manufacturers in order that programmers wear out their keyboards faster... -- :sb)