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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4ef4f2b6e50a48c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: What is ADA? Date: 1999/02/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447422060 References: <36D10384.CB4925C8@GoAway.com> <36D11BA2.2FE97A02@GoAway.com> <7arsc5$4m0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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!