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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-10 18:50:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: nma124@hotmail.com (steve_H) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada Date: 10 Dec 2002 18:50:25 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <8db3d6c8.0212101850.51506572@posting.google.com> References: <3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com> <3DF1B042.6603DDDE@easystreet.com> <3DF2A483.EC512CDF@adaworks.com> <8db3d6c8.0212091445.12594821@posting.google.com> <3DF628C4.7090607@cogeco.ca> <3DF6653D.3030603@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.203.198.30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1039575026 21749 127.0.0.1 (11 Dec 2002 02:50:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Dec 2002 02:50:26 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31665 Date: 2002-12-11T02:50:26+00:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:<3DF6653D.3030603@cogeco.ca>... > It is true that learning to do things the "Ada way" will > create some frustration in beginners. However, I can say > that I am always grateful for what the compiler finds up > front. > I think this is a way similar to the Latex vs Word debate. Let Latex be Ada here and MS Word be C. It is much easier to write a quick something in MS Word. Just open the document and start typing. It takes more time to first learn Latex, few commands to learn, and more advanced commands, and one has to compile it and then view it. However, if one invests the time to learn Latex, and get all the commands right, then their final output will be so much better than the 'quick' MS Word can ever generate, and it is a great investment that will pay multiples over a life time. And actually with time, one will find the producing documents with Latex is faster. But most will not spend the few short days to learn Latex initially, (will get either frustrated quickly, or would not even try it as it 'looks' hard) and will insead spend their life producing ugly documents with MS Word. > The challenge is to educate people that fighting with > the compiler is much preferred over looking > for memory leaks and other odd corruption problems. In other > words quality time spent with your Ada compiler is much > less than the quality time you spend with your debugger.