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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-01 08:49:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!deine.net!freenix!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Michal Nowak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:48:38 +0100 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <3wdH7.20135$xS6.32614@www.newsranger.com> <9tqete0gqc@drn.newsguy.com> <3C0924D6.2B5A3087@adaworks.com> <250220022121494455%thehouseofcards@remove.this.part.mac.com> <3C7B0B13.3080003@worldnet.att.net> <3C7D1C89.2000803@home.com> <3C7E7CAD.7070504@mail.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1015001342 66070 137.194.161.2 (1 Mar 2002 16:49:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:49:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: In-reply-to: <3C7E7CAD.7070504@mail.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.01 (3) Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: vinnie@inetia.pl List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20654 Date: 2002-03-01T17:48:38+01:00 On 2002-02-28 at 13:53 Hyman Rosen wrote: >Michal Nowak wrote: >> Another issue when learning a programming language is if the learner >> likes it. Maybe that is why learning Ada came rather easily to me. > >I know I have a visceral dislike for the Pascal-style languages. >Pascal, Modula-N, Oberon, Ada - they all just rub me the wrong >way when I look at them. It's hard for me to appreciate that Ada >is intended to be reader-friendly when my brain is going "yuck" >whenever I look at some code. > >Hmm. Wirth, Ichbiah, you - maybe it's some sort of Europe/America >thing :-) Yea, I see the smiley, but there must be something in this "begin ... end" vs "{ ... }" conflict. Sometimes some colleagues of mine are telling me, that Ada is Pascal after mutation and they don't like to look at such code (just like you). Hmm, Pascal was first language I learnt (I their case that was C), so maybe that's the reason. Although I am a bit like a sine, when I started doing C (and completly abondoned Pascal for 4 years). Now I'am back from "{ ... }" land, again in "begin ... end" style, and ... I think I like it more. Mikeh