[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/19/18 2:43 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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 ?

It was earlier than 1995 so I guess that makes it Ada83.
But having worked with Ada from the beginning to the
present, I don't think that makes as much difference
as you seem to.

bill