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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,208279d79d40e7d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-27 09:30:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy. References: <7aR2b.4121$Xw6.1358@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:15:34 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1062000919 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:15:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:15:19 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41897 Date: 2003-08-27T12:15:34-04:00 List-Id: Luke A. Guest wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:28:19 +0000, Stephane Richard wrote: ... > 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. What is so difficult about: Put_Line("Hello World"); or even Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Hello World"); Even before you can do printf/cout, you have to #include some header files. I fail to see the difficulty here >:-/ -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg