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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- In-Reply-To: ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au's message of 21 Feb 1996 08:05:59 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:26:06 GMT
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- In article <4gejp7$o23@mailhub.scitec.com.au> ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) writes:
-
- Ramses,
-
- > Since I posted the above, I've been flamed by every man and his dog.
-
- :-)
-
- > The comment was based on something I was told at UNI by one of the
- > lecturers, and not out of my own experience.
-
- Yes, it is highly unfortunate that people in "positions of authority
- or power" should pontificate on things they know absolutely nothing
- about. I suppose this is just one more piece of evidence suggesting
- that so called "authorities" are to be questioned at every point.
- It is unfortunate that it has come to this, but it appears to be
- true...
-
- > particular, one who stated that I could probably learn Ada in about
- > one week.
-
- Same comment applies. This is just pure baloney. You can learn the
- core of the language (C/Pascal equivalent) in somewhat less time than
- learning Pascal (due to the more regular syntax and semantics). I
- really don't believe that you can learn all of Pascal (and actually
- know it) in "about one week".
-
- > in learning it. Can anyone suggest any good books on it (one that
- > reasonably priced) and possibly a good compiler for a PC. Also,
-
- Well, two excellent books would be John Barnes's Programming in Ada95,
- Addison Wesley; and Norman Cohen's Ada as a Second Language (the new
- edition covering Ada95). Both are probably going to run around
- US$45.00. As for a compiler, you are in good luck. A couple options
- are Gnat (download your favorite machine binary version for free from
- cs.nyu.edu pub/gnat [includeing Win/95, Win/Nt, OS/2, DOS] and make
- sure you pick up the emacs mode or M. Felman's GWU Turbo-like
- environment) or Thompson's ActivAda or ObjectAda (beta test) for under
- US$100.00. There are many others. Also, for all sorts of information
- like this check out the Ada WWW home page: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/
-
-
- > according to many of the postings, I'm being given the impression
- > that there are plenty of engineering jobs for Ada. I've been
- > looking in the job ads (in Sydney, Australia) and I can't seem to
- > find many Ada jobs (as compared with C and C/C++ jobs) for
- > engineers. I'm interested to know where these jobs are.
-
- Unfortunately, this topic generally generates only flames and other
- irrational comments. IMO, the exact situation is very unclear, but
- it seems there are (in general) more Ada positions than qualified
- people to fill them.
-
- /Jon
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