Re: Learning Ada

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From: Golden Richard
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 04:40

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In article <6354@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:

>    Students should have little trouble with this as they write their
>    "rpogram", since Ada has very few reserved words.  It only becomes 
>    a problem in languages like COBOL, whose reserved words number well 
>    over 200... 

I agree.  COBOL compilers tend to be incredibly stupid, too.  Accidentally 
using a reserved word as an identifier can lead to errors like
"missing period" being flagged scores of lines from the actual trangression.

-=-
Golden Richard III        OSU Department of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu         "I'm absolutely positive!  ...or not."

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