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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
Subject: Re: why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:07:13 +0200
Date: 2014-07-16T01:07:13+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lq4c6q$a6e$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lq3usp$6io$1@dont-email.me>

On 15.07.14 21:19, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 07/15/2014 11:42 AM, G.B. wrote:
>>
>> The authors seem to think that, for newcomers at least, it is better
>> to have different syntax for different things, irrespective of
>> experienced linguists' abstract views.
>
> That some people got a book published doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. In a controlled experiment at West Point, it was determined that Ada is a better introductory language than Pascal, even though Ada uses parentheses for everything, while Pascal uses brackets for array indexing.

I have found
  "A Comparison of Ada and Pascal in an Introductory Computer Science Course"
by Murtagh & Hamilton. Things other than the shape of brackets have
greater influence on educational success, then. (Packages, types,
explicit type conversion, syntax without surprises, good error messages.)


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-13  1:55 why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-13  3:01 ` Shark8
2014-07-13  6:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-13 14:33   ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-13  9:01 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-13  9:08   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-13 10:20     ` AdaMagica
2014-07-13 10:24     ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-14 23:36       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-15 18:42         ` G.B.
2014-07-15 19:14           ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-15 22:47             ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-15 19:19           ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-15 23:07             ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2014-07-15 22:00           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-13 14:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-14 15:25 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-14 16:24   ` G.B.
2014-07-14 17:41     ` Simon Wright
2014-07-14 19:41     ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-14 20:51       ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-14 23:23       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-15 19:22 ` Marius Amado-Alves

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