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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: why Ada type casting is different from other languages?
  newType(value)
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:07:13 +0200
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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.)