Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Learning Ada Message-ID: <5595@ficc.uu.net> Date: 8 Aug 89 16:53:31 GMT References: <2550@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <6205@hubcap.clemson.edu> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 23 In article <6205@hubcap.clemson.edu>, billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,) writes: > OK; let's imagine. Student gets syntax error. [...] Student > shows the program to the local Consultant [who] points out > the obvious error. Ever been a consultant at a university comp center? I have. The next stage, if the student is working in Fortran, C, or some other production language (ADA wasn't around back then), is... Student comes back in 10 minutes with the same error. or... Consultant spends 10 minutes explaining error to student, and maybe fails. Meanwhile 6 other students get tired of waiting... If the student is programming in Pascal, they are much more likely to understand the error. ADA is considerably more complex than Fortran or C. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"