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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169488421 sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com x-nntp-posting-host: smosha references: organization: MESC mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: All this rhetoric is fine as far as it goes, BUT, for me it is not what you can write, but what you can read. It does not matter how many languages you know. It does not really matter what style you use. In most cases it does not matter which language you apply to which problem. Problem spaces change, evolve. Sooner or later you or someone else will look at your code and want to change it. In most cases this occures before the product is even delivered. Most institutions have procedures to review code. From turning in assignments at school to walk-throughs and peer reviews in industry, someone is looking at your code. This is the motivation behind Ada, the human aspect. And Ada wins, hands down. If you want/need to learn a language, Ada has it all. Object Orientation, all the constructs, availability, understandability, and most important for new programmers -- readability.