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-Thread: 103376,751d508677a5add1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:00:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8f469661-370c-4484-82d8-f1b365455e0f@w12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net I9Z5tcTRFm2weBjMS/m8CAvfiyWw8ifC1VsMBJtZSqBjtjtDzp Cancel-Lock: sha1:TSW+u9ebV1ZG04USb0McGC1dJWc= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.23.0.091001 Thread-Topic: ADA made me hate programming Thread-Index: AcsZJdGH+AOm0r5jekK8cZVBIX4FcA== Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12090 Date: 2010-07-01T15:00:53+01:00 List-Id: On 01/07/2010 14:22, in article alpine.LRH.2.00.1007011416040.12027@64bit-RedHat-Enterprise-Linux6beta, "Colin Paul Gloster" wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, anon@anon.org alleged: > > |---------------------------------------------------------------------| > |"[..] | > | | > |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. > |--------------------------------------------------------------------| > |"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 ". -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk