Re: A non-programmers interpretation of Ada code

["Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>]

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proof is in the facts...and there are the facts :-)....indeed it is what you
anticipated :-).

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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> I asked two people that hasn't coded what they understood from the program
> below. Here is the answer:
>
> First test person:
>
>    >    with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
>
>    Hm, I dont' know this. This Ada.Text_IO must be a specific text or an
>    order. I guess it is Ada programming. So, use this specific
>    text/order and do something with this text/order. Probably there is
>    something that continuous after the final ";"
>
>    >    procedure Hello is
>    >    begin
>    >       Put_Line ("Hello World!");
>    >    end Hello;
>
>    There is probably a starting procedure that is called "Hello". This
>    procedure starts with the phrase "Hello World!. So, when Hello
>    procedure starts one has "Hello World!" at the screen.  Then the
>    Hello procedure ends.
>
>
>    > Does this code look more easy or more hard to understand than the
>    > C++ code below.
>    >
>    > #include <iostream>
>    >
>    > int main()
>    > {
>    >     std::cout << "Hello, world!\n";
>    > }
>
>    Ei! This is chineese.
>    (or "greek" for non-Greeks)
>
> Second test person:
>
>    [About Ada program]: I think it prints Hello World to the screen as
>    it says Put_Line.
>    [About C++ program]: This is definiately harder to understand. I mean
>    what does std:cout mean?
>
>
> Quite what I had anticipated. :-)
>
> Preben
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