Re: Ada in Iraq

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> It's not really incapability of learning. It's a matter of
> trying to use a language with only a cursory understanding
> of it, instead of a deep one. When you do that, you're going
> to fail, or at least "succeed badly", because you will fail
> to use the features of the language to their best advantage.
> It's the old concept of being able to code Fortran in any
> language. Think of how many posts in this newsgroup criticize
> Ada newbies for trying to transliterate C into Ada instead of
> learning how things should be done properly in Ada. Now imagine
> them actually going off to build a system in that style.
> 
> Without an expert in Ada around to supervise the training, the
> people learning Ada aren't going to know when they've learned
> enough about the language to use it properly.

Huh? A good programmer isn't a programmer who is good in Language X, but
one who understands programming.

One that knows C++/VB/HTML well need not be good at programming at all.

At any rate C++ must be one of the worste programming language to be
good at as it has so many side effects and perculiarties that you need
to read several books to learn how to avoid its pitfalls etc...

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/