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From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>
Subject: Re: Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story
Date: 16 Feb 2006 16:10:08 GMT
Date: 2006-02-16T16:10:08+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns976C71A59C05pchapinsovernet@198.186.192.137> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bbd1td.6ck.ln@hunter.axlog.fr

Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in
news:bbd1td.6ck.ln@hunter.axlog.fr: 

> Ada was designed to induce a change in mentalities. A change in 
> mentality is much harder to introduce than a change of programming
> language. 

I agree with this. It also works in another direction... I believe I became 
a significantly better C programmer after studying Ada. Like all good 
programming techniques, the concepts end up being language independent.

Peter



  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-16 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-16  2:15 Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story Anonymous Coward
2006-02-16  8:32 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-02-16 16:10   ` Peter C. Chapin [this message]
2006-02-17  9:27   ` Jerome Hugues
2006-02-17  9:48     ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-16 10:20 ` stephe_on_the_web
2006-02-17  4:19   ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-17  5:25     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-19  3:58     ` adaworks
2006-02-19 15:28       ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-16 20:17 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-02-17  4:25   ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-17 23:09     ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-02-16 23:57 ` adaworks
     [not found]   ` <7glav1paqvs5oco9nn9s5gknlimfu8aglg@4ax.com>
2006-02-17 13:39     ` Marc A. Criley
2006-02-17 18:55   ` Simon Wright
2006-02-17 20:43     ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-17 21:02     ` Stefan Lucks
2006-02-17 21:04       ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-18  9:58       ` Simon Wright
2006-02-17  1:57 ` Brian May
2006-02-17  5:29   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-17 12:43     ` Simon Clubley
2006-02-17 19:18       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-20  4:44   ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-20  7:42     ` Brian May
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