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From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:37:12 -0700 (PDT)
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On 30 Jun., 07:23, 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..

So perhaps you made a very wise decision due to this course.
If you had compile-time errors with Ada, it was because you had bugs
and bugs tend to be detected more at compile-time with Ada. As a
reward, your programs tend to function earlier correctly once they are
compiled. Kind of each time you lose 10 minutes fighting with the
compiler, you gain 1 hour not fighting with the debugger. A good deal
in the end, but as you say later, it requires some maturity to catch
it.

> 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..

As far as can see, for the last 20 years universities are rather
pushing C and the like, and perhaps precisely because they want to
keep their students at the same level they had when entering (which
can make a short-term sense, economically, for universities).
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