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From: fraser@sinopsis.com
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/10
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paene lacrimavi postquam "Michael Young" <nobody@all.org> scribavit

>Aye. Compared to the untrained Java multitudes, C++ benefits from requiring
>more upfront knowledge and experience. Ada tops even C++ in this regard. As an
>pre-employment filter, this is not altogether a bad thing.

I don't understand this ... what metric are you using?  I would have
thought that Ada is a much easier language to dip into, because it
has better support for abstractions, the compiler is more likely
to tell you if you screw up, you don't need to use pointer arithmetic,
it's harder to trash your stack, and the reference manual is smaller.

Actually, I can understand it from the POV that the Great Unwashed (tm)
are more likely to have grabbed the most recent language du jour,
whereas if somebody knows Ada, they probably have some experience.
And if they like Ada, they've obviously got excellent taste :)

Real Life Story: I put a parenthesis in the wrong place, and ended
up trying to index a string with a character.  Using Ada saved me
(at least) a whole debug cycle.  This happens all the time.

Fraser.
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