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: 103376,3885b7fd66a1db28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-27 13:27:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada a good choice for an ambitious beginner to programming Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:25:59 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <5ad0dd8a.0212210251.63b87aba@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32346 Date: 2002-12-27T15:25:59-06:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote in message ... > >> Beginners to programming have a great deal of detail to absorb. >> They do not need to be burdened by learning merely contingent >> factoids, such as how to operate the not-necessarily-intuitive >> user interface of an IDE. They do need an effortless text editor, > >Especially not one like JBuilder (and every other GUI builder >I have ever seen) that not only generates code for you, but >generates really BAD code (from a readability/maintainability >perspective). That was one of the goals of the Claw Builder: to generate readable Ada code for the GUI. I think we've come reasonably close. A big help to readability is that the Claw Builder allows the programmer to chose the identifier names for items. In most cases, the Claw Builder generates the same code that I would have written by hand. (There are some things I would do differently today, but nothing major). The only real lack is that there are no application-specific comments -- but those aren't usually needed in the GUI. (User-defined code is built with their own GUI and accessed by subprogram calls. We didn't want to try to write a complete IDE in the Claw Builder.) Randy Brukardt.