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: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-23 11:17:07 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!proxad.net!teaser.fr!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: sk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming? Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:16:54 -0600 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <15FN9.2313$c6.2612@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1040671026 90949 137.194.161.2 (23 Dec 2002 19:17:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32250 Date: 2002-12-23T13:16:54-06:00 Hi, > Mom used to say, "If you can't say anything nice..." If you read what I said, I genuinelly beleive you would be better off looking at readily available tools rather than posting provocative messages in the comp.* news groups. > ... see that beginners are soon befuddled by non-intuitive > syntactical clutter and compiler catastrophes. Basic is a very valuable learning tool to get a feel for what programming is. My comments concerning BASIC were not meant to be a snide remarks. > Read and learn boys since I assume from your tone that > you both must be about 15 years old. I cannot speak for Wes Grouleau, but I suspect that I was programming in BASIC (which lead me to appreciate the value of a language such as Ada) before you were even born. Congtatulations, I have risen to your trollish, provocative and childish comment :-) -- -- -- Merge vertically for real address -- ------------------------------------ -- s n p @ t . o -- k i e k c c m ------------------------------------