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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-stoc.telia.net!217.209.241.210.MISMATCH!news-stod.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in colleges and universities. References: <65a1ie1n.fsf@pop-server.bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <65a1ie1n.fsf@pop-server.bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:51:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1086785488 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:51:28 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:51:28 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1308 Date: 2004-06-09T12:51:28+00:00 List-Id: I R T wrote: > Bj=F6rn Persson writes: >=20 >=20 >>I'd say you're not a good >>programmer until you've tried at least two different languages, >>because only then will you be able to see the weaknesses in a >>language.=20 >=20 >=20 > But ( to play devils advocate ) why should the second one be > Ada ? >=20 > Why not Java ( for practicality ) or Ocaml or Smalltalk ( for something= totally > different) ? I know too little about Ocaml and Smalltalk to make any statements. As=20 for Java, to some extent for the same reason why C++ doesn't count as a=20 second language - that it is so similar to C. (It has inherited the=20 switch-break idiocy and the if(a=3D0) bug for example.) And in this case,= =20 because Java isn't for low-level programming. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson jor ers @sv ge. b n_p son eri nu