From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy.
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:04:42 +0100
Date: 2003-08-27T00:04:42+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2003.08.26.23.04.42.77657@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7aR2b.4121$Xw6.1358@nwrdny03.gnilink.net
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:28:19 +0000, Stephane Richard wrote:
> Excellent input Luke,
Ta ;-)
> Indeed, a language like Ada should be used alot more than what I'm seeing
> today. It's part of the goal of the website I'm creating, to promote Ada,.
> so all the good sides like those you mentionned here are excellent points.
> Oh and as for that one downside. I dont recall ever reading anywhere that C
> and C++ were a "beginner's" language ;-).
Ah! But, the first program anybody will learn is the "hello world" program
in C & C++ this *is* easy:
printf("hello world\n");
or
std::cout << "hello world" << endl;
not that I said they were beginners languages though ;-/
the same isn't too easy with Ada IIRC. We had a package written by our
lecturers to give us easy access to the text IO functions.
> Even if things have changed today and they teach C/C++ in computer schools,
> me I learned on Pascal, and the structure you needed to have in Pascal
made
I learned C first, then m68k asm, then Pascal (which I don't like) then
C++ and then Ada (I did a bit of Java but not enough to learn it properly
- API wise).
> for very readable code. Ada being a superset of Pascal, takes this easy
> maintainability aspect of Pascal to the next level. Making projects tha
> much more easier to read and maintain. It's definitaly not as cryptic as C
> and C++ have the potential to be (believe me, I've seen C code that almost
> made me wanna give up some important parts of my anatomy. ;-). Since Ada
Yes, but once you've passed the struct/pointer parts of the learning
process, you've got C in hand.
> has a somewhat predefined if you will structure like you say, if the
> variables are named reasonability clear, then it only makes the whole code
> that much clearer and quicker to maintain.
>
> Thanks again for the input.....and if, in the course of time, something else
> pops in your head, let me know :-)....you and anyone else :-)...even little
> things like what Luke said are quite important advantages to Ada.
I was wondering recently if variable function/procedure parameters can be
implemented in Ada (i.e. C's ...)? I have found this useful in C.
Luke.
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2003-08-26 20:33 Ada Advocacy Stephane Richard
2003-08-26 21:20 ` Luke A. Guest
2003-08-26 22:28 ` Stephane Richard
2003-08-26 23:04 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2003-08-27 16:15 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-08-27 23:06 ` Luke A. Guest
2003-08-28 10:39 ` Preben Randhol
2003-08-26 23:55 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-08-27 0:44 ` Anisimkov
2003-08-27 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-08-27 20:12 ` Wes Groleau
2003-08-27 23:09 ` Luke A. Guest
2003-08-29 16:13 ` Jon S. Anthony
2003-08-29 18:15 ` Luke A. Guest
2003-08-28 8:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-08-27 8:29 ` Luke A. Guest
2003-08-28 5:29 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
2003-09-01 21:26 ` Dave Thompson
2003-08-27 6:56 ` David Holm
2003-08-27 16:00 ` Rod Chapman
2003-08-29 6:38 ` Adrian Hoe
2003-08-29 9:34 ` Stephane Richard
2003-09-01 5:45 ` Adrian Hoe
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2012-03-20 16:35 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-03-20 20:06 ` Shark8
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2012-03-20 18:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-03-20 21:42 ` anon
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2012-03-21 0:32 ` Shark8
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2013-08-27 14:08 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 14:13 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 21:25 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-08-28 7:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-27 22:42 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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2013-08-28 8:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
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2013-08-28 17:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-28 16:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-28 17:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-28 23:33 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-29 7:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-29 14:47 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-29 19:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-29 15:28 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-29 21:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2013-08-30 23:52 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-31 0:05 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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2013-08-31 9:00 ` Dirk Craeynest
2013-08-31 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-09-02 7:13 ` Egil H H
2013-09-02 8:41 ` G.B.
2013-09-02 16:37 ` Egil H H
2013-08-29 15:46 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-30 4:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2013-08-30 16:54 ` Robert A Duff
2013-08-30 17:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2013-08-30 22:41 ` Robert A Duff
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