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From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/22
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Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00
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> Robert> Well of course, Andy may be a brilliant exception, but most
> Robert> people who learn "Ada in a couple of weeks" on their own with
> Robert> a background like his tend to write just terrible Ada, having
> Robert> completely misunderstood the critical use of abstraction, the
> Robert> right way to use exceptions, the right way to use generics,

This makes the assumption that the learner has never seen abstraction,
exceptions or generics before coming to Ada.  If the learner has seen
these before then Ada is just a matter of learning the syntax,
semantics and standard packages.  And even if not all of these have
been seen, having a decent brain gets over those hurdles (ie, a brain
that says "I don't understand generics fully, so I won't use them just
yet").
-- 
Darin Johnson
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