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_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 07:37:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <9k3l9r$10i2$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B656345.64AB603A@sneakemail.com> <9k3oa1$2qg8$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com> <3B6588FC.6D40C443@sneakemail.com> <87snfe9sir.fsf@520075220525-0001.dialin.t-online.de> Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:37:29 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:37:29 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10864 Date: 2001-07-31T14:37:29+00:00 List-Id: In article , Milan Mancel says... >What really puts people off Ada is that they cannot hack code like in >C. In Ada you have to think first. You have to think of correct types I have heard this so much from Ada newbies over the years (ones that I'm pretty sure have *not* heard it from the others), that I begin to think there is a large amount of truth in it. But I have to admit that I can't hear that statement without chuckling. I shouldn't laugh, because it is meant seriously. But complaining about being forced to think while programming is like complaining about being forced to immerse yourself while swimming; it is the very nature of the task. A real developer can no more sit down at a keyboard and just "hack" out a good program than a real writer can just sit down at a word-processor and hack out a good novel. I know some writers who actually formally outline their *emails* before starting to write them. But for some reason this level of forethought is not appreciated by the masses where software development is concerned. >What I really miss is good and short example code of every Ada concept >and maybe more libraries and bindings. You can find a bit of that in AdaPower's Source Code Treasury ( http://www.adapower.com/adacode.html ) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com