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Le 05/07/2017 à 01:40, Luke A. Guest a écrit :
> Jeffrey R. Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
>> 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 
> 
> What gotchas, apart from dangling else?
> 
Arrays of fixed, static size come to mind.

Also, parameter passing needing to be marked as "by value" or "by
reference" is not an easy concept for beginners.


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