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Reddit mentions of Ada as A Second Language
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He might have fallen into the trap with new Ada programmers getting "type happy" and defining specialized types "just because" for every other time they need an Integer.
The book I'm reading right now (Ada as a second language) has made reference to this a couple times as a common pitfall for new programmers to Ada to fall into.
> Yes: work fast ;-)
Well, there you go, then. :-) .NET has a lot of facilities already built into the libraries in a nice consistent way, lots of design-time stuff, lots of metaprogramming stuff, and so on.
> I'd love to learn Ada.
http://www.amazon.com/Ada-Second-Language-Norman-Cohen/dp/0070116075/
Ada is a huge language, well designed, but the libraries kind of lack. If you are starting a big project from scratch, it's not bad. If you want to hook together six different internet services to make a seventh, you're going to wind up building a lot of infrastructure that's trivially available elsewhere.
But it's a good language to learn.
> Well, there you go, then. :-)
Here I go...
> .NET has a lot of facilities already built into the libraries in a nice consistent way, lots of design-time stuff, lots of metaprogramming stuff, and so on.
But, but... it's... so... Microsofty!!!
>> I'd love to learn Ada.
> http://www.amazon.com/Ada-Second-Language-Norman-Cohen/dp/0070116075/
> Ada is a huge language, well designed, but the libraries kind of lack. If you are starting a big project from scratch, it's not bad. If you want to hook together six different internet services to make a seventh, you're going to wind up building a lot of infrastructure that's trivially available elsewhere.
> But it's a good language to learn.
I do want to learn it. I've been programming Delphi (the Pascal, non-.Net variety) for many, many years, and professionally in 3 jobs. So, it shouldn't be too difficult!
Of course, I have been spoilt by the excellent Delphi IDE... What I know about Ada, there's not (alas) something similar around for Ada... A missed chance for Borland / Codegear / Embarcadero, if you ask me!