From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:07:32 -0700
Date: 2020-04-23T14:07:32-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dy5j4h7.fsf@nightsong.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f4c4aebb-f9fe-440e-8886-d125ff1af9d1@googlegroups.com
Andrew Shvets <andrew.shvets@gmail.com> writes:
> Ada has an amazing type system and it can do great things. But it’s a
> complex topic and I want to introduce it in a different way than is
> usually found in most books.
I think these days (and maybe always), Ada is not a great choice of
first language for programmers. Its strength is in its special
characteristics that are things that beginners would usually not use.
So imho, it doesn't seem all that worthwhile to start an Ada book with
beginner-level topics.
The popular beginner language these days is Python. I use Python a lot
myself, though I have become somewhat disillusioned with it.
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2019-12-03 4:05 Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020) Paul Rubin
2019-12-03 12:11 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 12:33 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 13:21 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-03 13:57 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 14:04 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 14:15 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 14:39 ` Simon Wright
2019-12-03 14:45 ` Shark8
2019-12-03 17:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-03 15:04 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 15:29 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 16:06 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 16:26 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 16:50 ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 17:02 ` Shark8
2019-12-03 17:29 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-05 16:35 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2019-12-05 17:12 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-09 19:08 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2019-12-06 18:34 ` Shark8
2019-12-06 20:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-06 21:05 ` Shark8
2019-12-07 0:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-14 4:21 ` Keith Thompson
2019-12-14 11:34 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 17:39 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 19:12 ` Paul Rubin
2019-12-14 4:34 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17 5:14 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 6:17 ` Teaching Ada types J-P. Rosen
2020-04-29 13:07 ` Mehdi Saada
2020-04-29 21:25 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17 4:27 ` Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020) Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 12:44 ` Ludovic Brenta
2020-04-17 13:07 ` Jere
2020-04-17 14:31 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 20:40 ` Björn Lundin
2020-04-17 4:16 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 4:11 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 15:32 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-04-17 4:10 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 5:02 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 4:08 ` Andrew Shvets
2019-12-03 19:14 ` Paul Rubin
2019-12-04 6:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-04 6:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-04 9:46 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17 4:07 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 5:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-04-17 17:59 ` AdaMagica
2020-04-17 19:28 ` Optikos
2020-04-18 15:29 ` AdaMagica
2020-04-18 16:34 ` cantanima.perry
2020-04-18 17:59 ` Jere
2020-04-18 21:54 ` cantanima.perry
2020-04-18 22:18 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-04-18 22:33 ` Jere
2020-04-19 0:52 ` Jere
2020-04-19 2:23 ` Keith Thompson
2020-04-18 22:37 ` Jere
2020-04-19 0:42 ` Paul Rubin
2020-05-02 19:13 ` dave_thompson_2
2020-04-23 18:43 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-23 21:07 ` Paul Rubin [this message]
2020-04-23 21:33 ` Optikos
2020-04-23 21:42 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-24 14:42 ` Optikos
2020-04-24 15:35 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-04-30 8:01 ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-23 18:45 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-11-02 21:14 ` Norman Worth
2020-04-17 4:04 ` Andrew Shvets
2019-12-10 5:17 ` Jerry
2020-04-17 3:58 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-05-09 12:39 ` Chris Collings
2020-10-03 4:23 ` andrew...@gmail.com
2020-10-28 19:21 ` sany...@gmail.com
2020-11-11 1:41 ` Azathoth Hastur
2020-11-12 21:24 ` Shark8
2020-11-12 22:31 ` Chris Townley
2020-11-17 20:48 ` azathot...@gmail.com
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