Re: ADA made me hate programming

[Pablo <pablittto@gmail.com>]

On Jun 30, 2:23 am, mahdert <mahd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I first started my undergraduate studies as a computer science
> major, I was forced to use ADA in an introductory course.. Mind you I
> was already familiar with C++ at that time..but after dealing with ADA
> and compilet time errors for about a year, I decided to change my
> major to mech eng..
>
> Now, after many years, I started to revisit ADA and I seem to catch on
> to it.. but I feel (i know) its mostly due to my own experience and
> maturity level..
>
> So, I have to ask your opinion.. DO you think that the push for
> universities to use ADA is a big conspiracy among academicians to kill
> the passion of comp. sci in young students who would like to become
> software engineers???? I do not see any other reason why..

I suppose you were not introduced to Ada properly. I use Ada to
develop even math algorithms, and the high level of code control and
debugging really makes me feel very comfortable with the safety/
security that I can achieve. The issue maybe is what you expect from
the language and the level of confiability between products and
requirements. Ada I should say... makes this in such a way that if you
understand your code well, you can do this very pleasantly. I'm sure
that if you insist a bit more in studying deeper Ada and its
capabilities, you surely shall change your impression about the
language.

At the universities... I'm pretty sure that there is no engineering
course in which Ada don't be (at least!) extremely useful, even for sw
eng students. So, if there is a conspiracy... it would be to form
better engineers (which is what market or academic world needs!).

Regards.