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From: mrcope@primenet.com (Mike Copeland)
Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal SUCK, C,C++,
 and Java are the only languages you need!!
Date: 1997/10/29
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Date: 1997-10-29T00:00:00+00:00
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> Hello everyone, I hate to say it but my sentiments are with Mr. Black to a
> small degree.  My first programming class in college was in ADA and I found
> it very difficult to learn because of the lack of documentation and help
> aids for the language.  

   Well, it seems you missed a fundamental fact: it's "Ada", not "ADA".  
This language, like Pascal (not "PASCAL"), is named for someone (it's a 
proper name, not an acronym).  I daresay if you had learned this and a 
few other points, you might not be so antagonistic about some of these 
things...

> That  forced me to rely on my Professor for help
> which unfortunately was like pulling teeth.  The lack of being able to
> obtain outside sources from my local computer store ie : "ADA for Dummies"
> left me with a feeling of complete frustration while I spent the semester
> copying and reediting code from my fellow struggling classmates in order to
> pass the course.

   You poor thing - you actually had to _learn_ something on its own 
merits, by your own work and instructor interaction, and there wasn't a 
"Cliff's Notes" to work from.  It's truly a shame how the education 
system has fallen in these last 10-20 years...

> However, struggling with ADA did give me an appreciation for the process of
> writing source code, and I have found that the fundamentals that I learned
> with ADA are applicable to me as I learn C++.  <-- By the way this time I am
> writing my own code),

   Did you think that computer programs somehow "wrote themselves" and  
that you _wouldn't_ have to do such things?  Did you sleep through your 
high school computer classes, as well?  What did you _expect_???

> >>ADA and Pascal are two of the most useless inventions Man has ever
> >>wasted space on this planet with.  These languages are hard to learn,

   Him, too - what _did_ he expect?...