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: 103376,38c827f7e800d317 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-27 10:34:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: conversion Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1056735254 21936 129.241.83.78 (27 Jun 2003 17:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:34:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39835 Date: 2003-06-27T17:34:14+00:00 List-Id: Alexander Kopilovitch wrote: > Certainly, a chorus tells you that Ada is not C, but what about Pascal, which > has much more resemblance with Ada? Pascal isn't C, it does not rely heavily > upon pointers, but at the same time it has quite good and usable strings. Oh I remembered when we had to use Pascal in some introductory programming course at the university that there was several machines crashing due to that the students didn't get the pointers correctly. -- Ada95 is good for you. http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/MainMenu/Coding/Ada/IntroducingAda.php