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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-25 10:31:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!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: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <8mgdmv08eaabv53vv5sofud2k40lbo0fdh@4ax.com> <6roimvg39s8h5ba64u9pn0trsa4d3u4kai@4ax.com> <4XCbb.13251$Uv2.12148@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <1064336222.425669@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: <1064336222.425669@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:16:22 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1064510160 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:16:00 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:16:00 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42912 Date: 2003-09-25T13:16:22-04:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Chad R. Meiners wrote: > >> Well Dijkstra's point about BASIC was wrong. BASIC was my first language >> and I turned out fine. Furthermore, I know others whose first >> language was >> BASIC, and they turned out fine too. > > My first language was BASIC as well. > Take that as you will :-) Well my first language was FORTRAN, and I am still recovering from it. What amazes me though, is that they continue to muck about with it with newer versions of the dialect. It appears to have an incredible amount of "bags on the sides". -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg