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 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.Ry1GfOCil8z4iThfpbQjlA.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3a_sdlada=2c_l=c3=b6ve=2c_and_programming_for_beginner?= =?UTF-8?Q?s?= Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 22:53:13 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <87tv41cnnd.fsf@samuel> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: Ry1GfOCil8z4iThfpbQjlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58021 Date: 2020-02-09T22:53:13-06:00 List-Id: On 2/9/2020 11:34 AM, Rick Newbie wrote: > On the topic of teenage programmers: Although I am not a teenager I am > new to Ada. What is repelling is when you read Barne's book and you > throw up your arms and think: How am I ever going to master all that?! > One of the reasons a programming language become less popular is that it becomes more complicated with time. Look at what happened to C++. Same with Ada. They start relatively small and simple, and each few years, they update the standard and add more complication and "advanced" features so that few could understand it all. This has also happened to Fortran with addition of OO to it, where it is as complex as C++ and Ada. Fortran used to be very simple language. One of the reason why python is so popular (even though I think it is a horrible language myself) is that it is "simple". There should be something in between. A simple, yet well designed and strongly typed language. That is why I liked Pascal the most of all the languages I programmed in (followed by Ada). --Nasser