From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: What is ADA?
Date: 1999/02/23
Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.990223111146.96040A-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> (raw)
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> Ada's a bit of a jump from Pascal. Comming from Modula-2 I picked up the
> basics in a week. Tasks took another couple of weeks, and generics took
> longer yet.
>
The first article I give my Ada students is "Why Pascal Is not My Favorite
Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan.
Even though I am a Pascal fan (at least as compared to C, and for teaching
purposes). However I find the article illuminating, since it shows the
fundamental problems with Pascal. By solving those, Ada is a great step
forward - evne before you consider generics, OOP and tasking. (Not to
mention the best facilities for data hiding).
Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
http://www2.cybericites.com/e/ehud - Find other articles I recommend!
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-22 0:00 What is ADA? Corvus
1999-02-21 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Corvus
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
1999-02-22 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
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1999-02-26 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-23 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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1997-05-10 0:00 David Chang
1997-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Alan Brain
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