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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: What is Ada used for??? Date: 1996/10/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188363578 references: <325BF6AD.1A11@sn.no> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "What makes you think that you should be learning C++? Just because it is the current "in" language?" Actually my bookstore seems to think that Java is the current "in" language, you can hardly see a C++ book there any more, they are hidden behind stacks of Java books. But that's not a particularly good reason to learn Java either. Who knows what language-du-jour will be when you graduate. The critical thing is to learn fundamental programming principles, including how to design appropriate abstractions and algorithms for complex programming tasks. Ada 95 is certainly well suited to learning these principles.