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- From: aschen@ix.netcom.com (Sean Aschen)
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- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:25:54 GMT
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- On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 19:31:10 -0600, John Howard
- <jhoward@solar.sky.net> wrote:
-
- >On 19 Mar 1996, Ramaekers Marc wrote:
- >> hi,
- >>
- >> I'm interested in sharing stuff. But I'm in my first year computer science.
- >> I can only program a little in Pascal ( C is for next year) and I don't
- >> have a lot of time, because i have to study. Well, contact me if you
- >> have a question or want something. Who knows.... I might even know the
- >> answer :-)
- >>
- >> Marc
- >
- >Hello,
- >
- >Don't take this advice in a negative way but your instructors should
- >be made more aware of Ada 95. Your education is an investment toward
- >your future. Before Ada 95 and the recent GNAT compilers, Pascal had a
- >safe niche as a teaching tool to 1st/2nd year college students. In 1989
- >I taught a "Introduction to Programming" college course using Pascal.
- >Pascal has merits but it is a poor investment. I worked for almost eight
- >years using Borland Pascal dialects. But Pascal as a language is
- >completely obsolete because of Ada 95. There are still some excellent
- >development environments around for Pascal dialects though. But GNAT
- >compilers are free and satisfy the ISO (8652:1995) Ada 95 Language
- >Standard (hence no promotion of incompatible dialects as happens with
- >Pascal and C).
- Pascal is dead. Ada 95? I don't know about you, but I'm A CS
- Junior, and have found exactly zero employers who want Ada! I'm sure
- it is a superior language.. I have many gripes with C and C++ syntax,
- but if you want a job, don't depend on Ada!
-