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Subject: Re: free programming language
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Thanks!
I'll have to look at those, since free programming books of good quality are
sometimes hard to come by.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc@MIT.EDU>
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Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: free programming language


> Outch!! ADA is syntactically complex, and has never gained much acceptance
> in the software community. I'd really suggest Java. Its syntactically very
> close to C, it is interpretive (although I'm not sure I've ever really
seen
> a read-eval-print sort of interpreter for it), and it is very very
powerful.
> It is free, modern, object oriented, continually being updated and
improved,
> and you can even do GUI stuff which is accessible. OK, so Freedom
Scientific
> has a bit of work to do in this area, but to get started, its pretty good.
>
> There is an excellent book called "Thinking in Java", by Bruce Eckel
> available for free, and published in HTML on the web at
> http://www.mindview.net in the books section. There is also a very good
book
> called "Thinking in C++ on the same site". I have read these books and
they
> are excellent, and very accessible.
>
> Hope this info helps.
>
>                     Rich
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: 11 March, 2002 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: free programming language
>
>
> Hi Pete,
> I don't know Ada myself, but I've seen Ada listings and articles in
> programming magazines like Dr. Dobb's Journal.  It seems syntactically
> complex, much more so than say C++.
>
>      Jim
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Pete wrote:
>
> >
> >   What about ADA as a starting point for learning programming?
> >   Pete
> >
> >
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