From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c23311c4d57b937e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!0addc736!not-for-mail From: Jim Gurtner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada Reply-To: jgurtner@mindspring.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:16:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.245.15.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1095383796 66.245.15.163 (Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:16:36 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:16:36 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3793 Date: 2004-09-17T01:16:36+00:00 List-Id: I agree with you, Larry. I know C/C++ and am currently teaching myself Ada. I am finding it surprisingly easy to get my programming excercises working. The GNAT compiler error messages are very clear and it makes it easy to debug. Jim Gurtner jgurtner@mindsping.com On 16 Sep 2004 19:28:25 -0500, Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote: >In article , Jim Gurtner writes: >> Is this an Ada put down? > >I don't particularly care what the speaker intended, >but if the listeners actually take the advice and >learn Ada some will choose to stay with it. > >> Dan Saks said in a keynote speech at Embedded Systems Conference in >> Boston on Tuesday (Sept. 14): >> >> "In embedded programming, learning a less-popular language like Ada or >> Eiffel is critical not so much because it is a marketable skill but >> because it helps programmers see what is possible with more mainstream >> languages like C, C++ or Java."