Re: Ah, Usenet. How I Missed You.

[Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>]

On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 6:46:43 PM UTC-7, Coyo T Stormcaller wrote:
> Good evening, comp.lang.ada. I was chatting about Pascal on IRC one day when 
> someone suggested I explore Ada. Now I am reading Wikipedia's Ada 
> Programming tutorial, and it mentioned this Usenet newsgroup as the primary 
> means of discourse, should I ever feel the need.
> 
> Since I'm no genius hacker, by any stretch of the imagination, I figured I 
> may as well introduce myself. I will need help while learning to become 
> proficient at Ada programming.
> 
> According to the Wikipedia article on Ada, the language was designed 
> specifically for military and critical infrastructure purposes, and finds 
> usefulness in aerospace and nuclear applications. Sounds perfect to me.
> 
> I also read that Ada has builtin support for certain debugging and unit 
> testing functions that would need external toolchains in other languages. 
> I'm not sure how that works, as I have not gotten to that, yet.
> 
> Either way, so far Ada has both the "retro" cool factor of some of the 
> oldest programming languages, as well as the "underrated" cool factor, of a 
> language that has significant advantages in its intended uses.
> 
> Yes, I am pretty young. I was not alive to physically witness the 
> "programming" of punch card machines such as the one at IBM. However, among 
> my friends are some that have been there, and done that.
> 
> While I am young, I look forward to reading the old Usenet archives of this 
> newsgroup, and listening to any guidance or advice you may have to give. I 
> ask that you have a little patience with this young pup, since I was not 
> there to see the fascinating history of computing unfold, as many of you, 
> I'm sure, have.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your time and patience.

Welcome on board. Even though I am not an expert, I am more than willing to help whatever I can. In addition, you will be pleased with the help of this group for sure.

Anh Vo