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: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-24 15:32:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Why is Ada a good choice for an ambitious beginner to programming From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <5ad0dd8a.0212210251.63b87aba@posting.google.com> <5ad0dd8a.0212230352.11f8b886@posting.google.com> <5ad0dd8a.0212231215.6ae81bf7@posting.google.com> <5ad0dd8a.0212241456.502b994@posting.google.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:31:47 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.52.70 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1040772719 80.195.52.70 (Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:31:59 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:31:59 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32289 Date: 2002-12-24T23:31:47+00:00 List-Id: On 24/12/02 22:56, in article 5ad0dd8a.0212241456.502b994@posting.google.com, "Wojtek Narczynski" wrote: >> Ada beginners do not have any need to learn about storage pools >> (if their instructor is sane at ay rate). > > Bill, > > Looks like Ada is hard for me because I am a too curious and > impatient. All those generic formal parameters and levels of generic > instantiation, storage pools, requeues, task dependencies, > discriminants, unchecked conversions, freezing and finally some And this has - what? - to do with beginners to programming? > syntactic weirdness that can only be explained with the evolution of > the standard in time, is too much for somebody coming from Java world. An advocate of Java is on thin ice when complaining of evolving standards and syntactic weirdness in other languages. > Thanks for your time, Well, you've had all of it that you are going to get. Merry Xmas. -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")