Re: Ada Popularity Discussion Request

From: Puckdropper (fake_at_fake.org)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 05:27:47 GMT

I'm a sophomore in a Computer Science degree. When I found out last
year that we were going to be using Ada to program, I was surprised to
find it was still in use. I had only read about it in some old books.
I thought everyone used C except a select few who still hung on to BASIC
(like me) or some other old language.

 From someone who's learning Ada, I'd like to suggest a few problems
I've had so far in learning it:
1) Lack of good tutorial-type documentation. (I can't find it if it
exists. Michael Feldman likes to do about 5 things per example in his
books, and I don't want to do all 5, just one. It's hard to extract the
data from there.)
2) Poor explanations of what something does. I'm looking for a sentence
to a paragraph discribing what a package does, not what it includes. An
example of what I want is: "AdaGraph is a package that allows for
graphical programming and basic mouse control. You are limited to only
16 colors."

I suppose what would help Ada tremendously is doing something to be
picked up by the news stations. Unfortunately, news stations tend to
want to warn you more than inform you.

Puckdropper 

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