Re: How difficult is ada to learn?
- From: svaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (svaa)
- Date: 30 Jun 2005 12:36:20 -0700
If you have experience with Pascal, I don't think that will be very
difficult to learn. There are some new concepts like generics,
discriminants and tasks. You will find things different like objects
and pointers, and you'll miss some things like an easy strings
management, sets, and little more.
In the other hand, I like Ada sintax for blocks, that is, you don't
see a cascade of wild "end", you see "end nameprocedure" or "end if"
etc. I like the restrictions of types, harder that pascal (and much
harder than C). I like that the standard has a lot, a big lot of
functions that are standard in any Ada compiler.
There is also a new way of doing things in Ada. You will need some
experience to get the touch.
If you use borland's products, you will miss a good IDE. Nowadays
languages have libraries (packages in Ada) some standard, some added
by vendor, and some added by yourself. There are thousands of
functions, procedures and data structures, all that information is
difficult to handle without good tools. Borland is a master in this
matter, good integrated help, fast access to record fields and to
methods of an object, etc. There is nothing like that in Ada, and
that's a big problem, specially for a beginner.
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