From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: What good is Ada ???
Date: 1997/01/04
Date: 1997-01-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.852416205@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32cf95b5.9781483@netnews2.worldnet.att.net
Philip Chong says
"But why learn Ada?
Why not Java ?"
Well that's a question you should be able to answer yourself once you
know both languages (the fact that you ask the question means you do
not :-)
Java is an interesting language, and there are plusses and minuses for
teaching it as a first language (the lack of good Java based CS1/2 texts
being one issue), but it is clear (if you know both languages), that there
are a number of concepts that would be hard to teach in Java (e.g. storage
management, genericity, ...) compared to Ada.
You should certainly plan on learning both languages. If you work hard at
your Ada course, and really understand Ada well, you should have little
trouble in understanding Java!
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-04 0:00 What good is Ada ??? Ah Chong
1997-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Mike Paley
1997-01-04 0:00 ` Why Ada for learning Data Structures (was: What good is Ada ???) Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-04 0:00 ` James Farr
1997-01-04 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-01-04 0:00 ` What good is Ada ??? john babrick
1997-01-05 0:00 ` Eric B. Lemings
1997-01-07 0:00 ` WolfMtnRch
1997-01-07 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-01-10 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-01-13 0:00 ` James O'Connor
1997-01-06 0:00 ` Daniel P Hudson
1997-01-06 0:00 ` Brett M. Kettering
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Mike Paley
1997-01-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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