Re: ADA made me hate programming

["(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 01/07/2010 14:22, in article
alpine.LRH.2.00.1007011416040.12027@64bit-RedHat-Enterprise-Linux6beta,
"Colin Paul Gloster" <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, anon@anon.org alleged:
> 
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> |"[..]                                                                |
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> |APL/B/BCPL -- from late 50s .. late 70s                              |
> |                   replaced with  "C" aka newer version.             |
> |C/C++/D    -- from 74 .. Now.                                        |
> |           -- "D" is the newest version replaces C and C++           |
> |              "C++" is wide spread in all classes. C/C++ slowly      |
> |              replace all other older lang "Cobol" and "Fortran"     |
> |              in clasees.                                            |
> |              Also, due to fact that these lang are based on "APL"   |
> |              it makes the set, one of the OLDEST lang around.       |
> |              This 50+ year lang set should of died a few years ago."|
> |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
> 
> APL is not related to any other language which you mentioned.

As usual, anon is wrong. C is based on BCPL, which is based on CPL (not APL)
and CPL is based on  ... Algol 60, just like Pascal and (ultimately) Ada.

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> |"Ada   83 .. 98  -- only taught in gov't sponsor classes. Teacher   |
> |                   had to be certified in Ada before 98.

More rubbish. My University taught Ada as the foundation language for CS1
and CS2 from 1996. The classes were not "gov't sponsor classes". None of the
teachers were " certified ".

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Bill Findlay
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