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Hi Pete,
My impression of Ada is that is very verbose, not as much so as Cobol 
but more than a beginner would want to tackle.

     Jim
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Pete 
wrote:

> 
>   I read some about it a while ago and it used a modular approach or you
> were able to create modules?
>   Pete
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> 
> 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:
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> >
> >   What about ADA as a starting point for learning programming?
> >   Pete
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