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,e7ceb00d83425e3a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 11:49:35 -0500 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: re: rant (Re: Ada featured in Doctor Dobb's Journal ) References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 11:49:35 -0500 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.202.183.17 X-Trace: sv3-FdFGhINQKkmbhlRjkICx/UkTBHnkK0iHfRJFo2odDSV3RCBGsU1yBDZ5lkltzbkU7jBmAo2GQRpxOag!qzbF4/FUF88c25MVWZ/l9U+PBL9KHp5XT4aBNvfNR1uCpsQSNlncfxlvyvocRUIWQyU/DY2JQe+Z!bjiyoS+QA2RpoLw5MuCaCZ7Mj3awYg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:165 Date: 2008-05-17T11:49:35-05:00 List-Id: >People more familiar with language X than Y find that they spend less >time thinking about the language when programming in X rather than Y. I find that I spend relatively little time deciding on data structures or algorithms or how to express something in the programming language. Most time is actually spent finding out what various devices, OS calls, or SDK calls actually do. Even when the documentation exists and answers the question, it often lies, so a lot of experiment time is required.