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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1cabe8166ddcbb8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-02 06:11:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Resources for teaching a child Ada ? References: <1fsh0vss3dblbs9hm21vendb9arhvvrk90@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:11:42 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1041516703 151.168.133.155 (Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:11:43 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:11:43 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32447 Date: 2003-01-02T09:11:42-05:00 List-Id: > what you want to do. For some things Ada sucks, for some things Java > sucks. They're not superiour to one another just better at one thing > which the other isn't. I would agree that Ada is (IMO) a better Having just gotten a 97% in my first formal Java class, I'd have to say that for the pedagogical assignments, Ada would have been slightly better for most of them. Java was better for the O-O features, but _only_ because they were designed for Java's confusion between encapsulation device and inheritance device. More than once I noted that the assignment begged for Ada's enumeration types, numeric derived types, and/or subtypes.