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,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: if statements Date: 2000/11/06 Message-ID: <8u505a$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 690942495 References: <8tvbcq$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 23:37:57 GMT, tmoran@acm.org wrote: > If it's an 8-hour/day intense programming class, it should be past "if" >statements by the time he gets home and uses the Internet. In any case, >c.l.a. is going to be much too slow a source of answers. Certainly >there exist other time schedules than Sept-Dec semesters, but I'd be >surprised to hear of any that start at the beginning of November. I know of American universities with 15-18 hour semesters, but serial instead of parellel classes, i.e. 3 hours a day of class with (in theory) 3 hours a day of homework, with one starting about every three weeks. >If he isn't taking a class, but >is trying to learn by himself, and can't see the answer from his >available texts, and can't get answers from c.l.a., then just how is he >supposed to find such answers? If he's an RPG programmer trying to >expand his repertoire, perhaps he'll find a different language than Ada >where c.l.x. is more helpful. When I first read the question, I wondered which university was teaching basic programming with Ada. I remember when I first looked at Ada knowing QBasic, and C (with no formal programming training), I would have regarded that question as trivial. If he is learning Ada by himself, I fear that more questions like this will follow and few groups can accept the many basic questions of a beginner who has found someone who can answer his questions for him. I am curious why, if you disagree with our approach, why you did not just answer him yourself? -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http://dvdeug.dhis.org As centuries of pulp novels and late-night Christian broadcasting have taught us, anything we don't understand can be used for the purposes of Evil. -- Kenneth Hite, Suppressed Transmissions