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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Annoyances
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:51:17 -0500
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Date: 2017-06-29T11:51:17-05:00
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On 6/29/2017 11:24 AM, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 06/29/2017 01:18 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>> Pascal Was perfect language for learning and
>> teaching also.
> 
> The US Military Academy did a controlled experiment that showed that Ada (83)
> was a better teaching language than Pascal, which they were using at the time.
> Pascal has many well known gotchas for beginners that Ada got right. The "Pascal
> subset" of Ada with packages seems like an excellent first language, though.
> 

Sure, I can believe that. As I said, for me, Ada 83 was
a "better" Pascal.

It was at the right level for providing structured programming
with strong typing.

But Ada has got a lot bigger and more complex with time. All
languages seem to be inflicted by this disease. Look at Fortran
today for example, with all the OOP and other features they
added to it. Fortran which used to be one of the simplest
languages now has become as complicated of a language as Ada
and C++ !

--Nasser