Re: ADA made me hate programming

[anon@anon.org]

In <i0g4lk$qon$1@speranza.aioe.org>, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:
>On 6/29/2010 11:40 PM, anon@att.net wrote:
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>> The big conspiracy among academicians is pushing C++ and other languages,
>> were bad habits can become a cancer to the programmer/maintainers of any
>> software package.
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>I think the choice of CS teaching languages went something like this:
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>PLI/SNOBOL -- the dark ages ?
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>Fortran -- late 70's ?
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>Pascal/Ada/Module2/  80's. The golden age (algorithms+data 
>structures=programs)
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>C/lisp  80's-early 90's ?
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>C++ 90's - early 2000's ?
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>Java late 90's/middle 2000's ?
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>Python now ?
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>HTML5/JavaScript -- 2010's and for the rest of the 21 century :)
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>--Nasser
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Your Timeline is a off a bit.

Assembly --  From the Beginning .. To the Future
             Not pushed! After higher-level lang came around

Cobol/Fortran/Algol/Lisp -- late 50s .. late 80s
                            All were replace by C/C++ in the 80/90s
                            Note: Ada designer have stated that
                            Fortran was the "successful language"

PLI -- 60s, programmers and companies rebeled, they prefer to use 
            the specific language such as Fortran or Cobol 
            instead of learning and using PLI. So, schools followed the 
            companies and mostly stayed away from PLI.

Pascal/Module2 -- Mid to late 70s ... mid 90s 
                  Pascal was design to teach programming
                  Replace by C/C++ in 80/90s

APL/B/BCPL -- from late 50s .. late 70s 
                   replaced with  "C" aka newer version.
C/C++/D    -- from 74 .. Now.  
           -- "D" is the newest version replaces C and C++
              "C++" is wide spread in all classes. C/C++ slowly 
              replace all other older lang "Cobol" and "Fortran" 
              in clasees.
              Also, due to fact that these lang are based on "APL" 
              it makes the set, one of the OLDEST lang around.
              This 50+ year lang set should of died a few years ago.
            

Ada   83 .. 98  -- only taught in gov't sponsor classes. Teacher 
                   had to be certified in Ada before 98.
      After 98  -- problem is, not enough teachers that know Ada


Languages that are for net and have little to no interest to main 
stream programers that want to deal with the native CPU.

  Java --  90's .. now -- Sun's internet J-Code language that 
                          is somewhat secure and portable but 
                          altered to much for any lasting code.

  Only Web designers are into:    
       HTML/JavaScript/Python
               These are just a passing though for the movement
               and will be replace by some kind GUI web lang. All 
               three will be out the door by 2016.