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: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-23 12:04:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!mephistopheles.news.clara.net!news.clara.net!peernews!peer.cwci.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news13-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada a good choice for an ambitious beginner to programming References: <5ad0dd8a.0212210251.63b87aba@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Inktomi-Trace: pc2-bbrg1-4-cust73.renf.cable.ntl.com 1040673874 17360 80.4.70.73 (23 Dec 2002 20:04:34 GMT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:07:00 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.1.224.5 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news13-win.server.ntlworld.com 1040673874 80.1.224.5 (Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:04:34 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:04:34 GMT Organization: ntl News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32253 Date: 2002-12-23T20:07:00+00:00 List-Id: Bill Findlay wrote: > > 400 not-especially-endowed-with-genius CS1 students have > learned to program using Ada 95 at Glasgow University > every year since 1996. This is true, I'm one of them :) Danx -- for personal replies change spamoff to chris