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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-27 06:02:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: billtate@usermail.com (W D Tate) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming? Date: 27 Dec 2002 06:02:32 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3vpm0v8j05v3k07qarh8aa7ac5op0utqh9@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.146.132.188 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1040997753 674 127.0.0.1 (27 Dec 2002 14:02:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Dec 2002 14:02:33 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32331 Date: 2002-12-27T14:02:33+00:00 List-Id: David Starner wrote in message news:<3vpm0v8j05v3k07qarh8aa7ac5op0utqh9@4ax.com>... > >discipline I wish to discourage. Methinks there are far too many of > >these folks running around. > > But you aren't going to escape it by going to Ada - you can program > that way in any language, excluding the most evil.... I agree but the one's that want "full license" to express their creative juices don't tend to think "Ada" as their first choice. I rather work with the one's that think Ada first, second and last. >In many cases, you > will be going from a carefully designed and debugged library in C/C++ > to the same library, but with a quickly written binding between you. I don't have any issues with Ada wrappers around "good" C/C++ code.