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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-28 16:52:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: 28 Feb 2002 16:52:16 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9ff447f2.0202281652.61d0053f@posting.google.com> References: <3wdH7.20135$xS6.32614@www.newsranger.com> <9tqete0gqc@drn.newsguy.com> <3C0924D6.2B5A3087@adaworks.com> <250220022121494455%thehouseofcards@remove.this.part.mac.com> <3C7B0B13.3080003@worldnet.att.net> <3C7D1C89.2000803@home.com> <3C7E7CAD.7070504@mail.com> <3C7E84BA.3040604@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.186.172.33 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1014943937 25428 127.0.0.1 (1 Mar 2002 00:52:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Mar 2002 00:52:17 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20618 Date: 2002-03-01T00:52:17+00:00 List-Id: Ed Falis wrote in message news:<3C7E84BA.3040604@attbi.com>... > Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Hmm. Wirth, Ichbiah, you - maybe it's some sort of Europe/America > > thing :-) > > > > > Nah, I'm an American who prefers the Pascal style over the C style syntax. > > - Ed Pascal was my first structural programming language I learned. Then FORTRAN, COBOL, C/C++ than Ada. Before Pascal, I was on Apple BASIC. It was Pascal, I think, that allows me to appreciate Ada more than others. :) -- Adrian Hoe -- http://AdrianHoe.com