Re: Learning Ada

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From: Golden Richard
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1989 03:04

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Regarding article <8954@june.cs.washington.edu> posted by 
<pardo@june.cs.washington.edu>:

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.







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| Golden G. Richard III                        grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu |
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From: grichard@hydroplane.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard)
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Subject: Re: Learning Ada
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Date: 17 Aug 89 03:04:18 GMT
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