From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-086.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.86] helo=toccata.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kUeI-0006UN-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:35:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2BIZ7K05259 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:35:08 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:35:07 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: free programming language In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: In truth, I know very little about ADA. I am aware, however, that I don't hear much about it anymore. Haven't for years, actually. On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > Hi Janina, > Supposedly but I knew a programmer that was working on a big FAA project > using Ada. I made her not happy with me when I predicted they'd fail. > It did. If Ada was so great for defense applications how come most of > the people working for DoD kept asking for exceptions to their Ada > standard? They normally wanted to work using C. > Jim > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, > Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Isn't ADA for guiding missles and that kind of application? > > > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org