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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed 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!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrddc03.gnilink.net.POSTED!40f7026d!not-for-mail From: Puckdropper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <1092233689.719755@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <2nutq5F4sdqqU1@uni-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 05:27:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.10.99.30 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc03.gnilink.net 1092374867 4.10.99.30 (Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:27:47 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:27:47 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2709 Date: 2004-08-13T05:27:47+00:00 List-Id: I'm a sophomore in a Computer Science degree. When I found out last year that we were going to be using Ada to program, I was surprised to find it was still in use. I had only read about it in some old books. I thought everyone used C except a select few who still hung on to BASIC (like me) or some other old language. From someone who's learning Ada, I'd like to suggest a few problems I've had so far in learning it: 1) Lack of good tutorial-type documentation. (I can't find it if it exists. Michael Feldman likes to do about 5 things per example in his books, and I don't want to do all 5, just one. It's hard to extract the data from there.) 2) Poor explanations of what something does. I'm looking for a sentence to a paragraph discribing what a package does, not what it includes. An example of what I want is: "AdaGraph is a package that allows for graphical programming and basic mouse control. You are limited to only 16 colors." I suppose what would help Ada tremendously is doing something to be picked up by the news stations. Unfortunately, news stations tend to want to warn you more than inform you. Puckdropper -- www.uncreativelabs.net Old computers are getting to be a lost art. Here at Uncreative Labs, we still enjoy using the old computers. Sometimes we want to see how far a particular system can go, other times we use a stock system to remind ourselves of what we once had. To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm