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,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,4cf070091283b555 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) Subject: Re: What's the best language to learn? [any language except Ada] Date: 1996/08/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176076646 sender: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu references: <4u7hi6$s2b@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> <4uo74j$95p@ns.broadvision.com> organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer Date: 1996-08-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > I have to admit that when I was first introduced to Ada 83 one year ago, I > was rather disgusted. I'll admit too that this is the only Ada I've ever seen, and I bet it's the only Ada most people have seen either. Unfortunately, back then there were few good implementations, and even the standard packages were difficult to use even if they worked (I even had troubles getting hello-world to work). If the packages have gotten standardized and are easy to use then that in itself would eliminate most of the problems I had with it (unlike C++ where every vendor claims to have a different industry wide standard class libary, with a tendency to base things off of templates to ensure slow bulky apps). -- Darin Johnson djohnson@ucsd.edu O- The full name of the compiler is "Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym", which is, for obvious reasons, abbreviated "INTERCAL".