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: 2003-09-21 08:09:48 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: 21 Sep 2003 08:09:47 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.65.150.231 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1064156988 4396 127.0.0.1 (21 Sep 2003 15:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Sep 2003 15:09:48 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42727 Date: 2003-09-21T15:09:48+00:00 List-Id: "Luke A. Guest" 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.