Re: Ada for a programming newb.

[igouy@yahoo.com (Isaac Gouy)]

"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@abyss2-nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote 
> > My suggestion was Oberon-2 not Pascal, there is a difference ;-)
> Yes, but if you noticed where I placed my text, there is context there.

If you were commenting about the generalization smaller languages =
easier to learn then I'm guilty as charged ;-)
(No doubt there are some small languages that are more difficult to
learn.)

'being limited by the language' can be an irritating. On the other
hand picking up a new language seems like part of a larger learning
process - seeing the same kinds of iteration, the same algorithmic
structures, in slightly different form helps you to move from the
specific syntax to more general ideas about programming.

In that sense, pushing to the limits of a programming language, and
then transfering those skills to a bigger language seems beneficial.