Re: Learning Ada

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 16:53

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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.
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Learning Ada
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