[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/19/2018 2:39 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/19/18 2:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> There are two schools of thought on programming languages.
>>
>> There are those that prioritize the power of the language - it
>> should be possible to express even very complex logic in a
>> short and concise way.
>>
>> And there are those that prioritize simplicity of the
>> language - it should be possible for anybody with an
>> IQ over 90 to read and understand the code.
>>
>> Ada95 and Scala definitely seems to be designed
>> by people in the first category.
> 
> I don't know about that.  Ada w3as used as an introductory
> language at Universities and that was back when the average
> incoming student hadn't seen a computer more advanced than
> a TRS-80 or Apple ][.  They had no problem grasping it and
> by their second year were writing rather complex programs
> with it.

Ada95 or Ada83 ?

Arne