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- From: vanevery@blarg.net (Brandon J. Van Every)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
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- Date: 20 Mar 1996 09:45:27 GMT
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- John Howard (jhoward@solar.sky.net) wrote:
-
- : Using Ada 95 will save you a tremendous amount of time otherwise spent on
- : debugging and maintenance hacks.
-
- Hey John, I've got that web page of yours and I promise I'll look into
- Ada 95 when my plate is more clear. But I do want to head off a
- certain amount of "religious war" off at the pass. One thing is that
- like it or not, we live in an imperfect world when it comes to
- software development. Most people get C/C++ thrown at them. I think
- learning to deal with debugging and maintenance hacks are valuable
- skills in and of themselves, so I don't think you want to go too far
- with making it easy for students.
-
- Other than evangelizing Ada in forums like this, and/or suggesting
- that Ada showcase OS's be built, can you suggest some practical ways
- to cause the software industry to eventually embrace Ada? I don't
- think telling the students "that they should learn it" is really an
- answer to the problem. I'm all for advances in language technology.
- But advancing that technology in the real world is a very thorny
- problem. Surely you appreciate this, and I imagine you've thought a
- lot about it.
-
- Cheers,
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