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 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: 2003-09-18 13:34:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for a programming newb. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:19:37 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1063916361 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:19:21 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:19:21 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42667 Date: 2003-09-18T16:19:37-04:00 List-Id: Luke A. Guest wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:31:46 -0700, Isaac Gouy 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 ... As you can see, it is hard to get agreement on a language (its like getting people to agree on text editors!) Learning Ada can be fun. The best way to get started is to start with simple programming assignments (using good books). Don't try to do too much at first. There will be plenty of time to branch out later! You might take some old BASIC book from the library, and try to program those assignments in Ada. Once you master the basics, you can progressively stretch your wings. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg