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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy.
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:55:23 -0400
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"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The only downside to Ada is the amount of work that has to go into a
> simple program just to dump out some text (not very good for beginners) to
> the console.

Really?  I think Put and Put_Line are really simple to use.  Most students I
TA'd at the intro level did not have problems with Ada.Text_IO.  I observed
that students had more difficulty at the intro level with C++ and std:cout.
However this was at a different university so all things were not equal.

-CRM