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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 14:21:23 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <87muca3vgd.fsf@nightsong.com> <57d49047-0a61-4d13-8822-d004732a3acc@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 13:21:23 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3d6672157a8476b4b73138251a521b86"; logging-data="30033"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/WlHgiarF6dzbEQVn73o9z" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:hfNA1HFas/kA8T/ItVS6ENu78UY= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57629 Date: 2019-12-03T14:21:23+01:00 List-Id: Le 03/12/2019 à 13:33, Lucretia a écrit : >> Yes, he is. I had a little conversation on the very first edition >> with him. I esp. objected that he started his examples with using >> Integer rather than user-defined types (which IMHO is the very >> heart of Ada). I do not know whether he changed this. > There's nothing wrong with using integer to start off and then moving > onto defined types. Yes there is! (see my paper at the last Ada-Europe). The first message when you teach Ada is that it is all about defining proper types. You have to start by fighting bad habits from other languages. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr