[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/19/2018 8:47 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/19/18 7:38 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Ada95 is a much bigger language than Ada83.
>>
>> And as with other language that got redesigned then
>> I believe that such a redesign is not as clean as it
>> would have been if it had been done so from the beginning.
> 
> But, the amount of it that a first year college student would
> use in a first programming course is so small that either of
> them would be more than adequate and easy for a student to
> pick up.

Probably true.

But the fact that such a course cannot cover all or at least
most of the language is a good indication that the language
is complex.

You could teach most of standard Pascal in 6 months.

Arne