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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,442a61fa28886220 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-19 06:30:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: igouy@yahoo.com (Isaac Gouy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for a programming newb. Date: 19 Sep 2003 06:30:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.65.168.17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1063978235 31173 127.0.0.1 (19 Sep 2003 13:30:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Sep 2003 13:30:35 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42682 Date: 2003-09-19T13:30:35+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote > >>Kyle Root wrote > >> > >>>I was wondering if Ada would be suitable for me. > >> > >>Ada has many excellent qualities. > >>IMHO a smaller language is a better tool for learning about > >>programming. > > > > > > I disagree. A lot of people have learnt Pascal first, I think that is a > > mistake because you get to a point where you are limited by the language. > > Ada will give the beginner 1) an excellent introduction to developing > > functional code that is easy to read/write and is just nice & 2) will also > > provide a language that will not piss you off because it won't do what you > > want. > > In a controlled experiment at West Point, Ada was shown to be a better > 1st language than Pascal. My guess is that Kyle will be self-teaching from a book or online docs - were those the requirements of the controlled experiment? Out of curiousity, did anyone here learn Ada as a first language?