Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!hydroplane.cis.ohio-state.edu!grichard From: grichard@hydroplane.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Learning Ada Message-ID: <57769@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 03:04:18 GMT References: <2561@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <8954@june.cs.washington.edu> Reply-To: Golden RichardOrganization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 23 Regarding article <8954@june.cs.washington.edu> posted by : The University of New Orleans has been using Ada as an intro language with much success for the past several years. Exceptions need not necessarily be covered early in the curriculum. Ada provides an end of file test just like Modula-2 and Pascal. As for the test for a file open or write failing, Pascal code would simply crash, since there *is* no way to perform such a test. With proper planning, there is no reason that an introductory sequence in Ada need overwhelm the student with unnecessary details. Ada's "core" syntax is relatively clean and quite easy to teach. -=- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Golden G. Richard III grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+