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From: db@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Learning Ada
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Date: 30 Aug 89 18:35:05 GMT
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In article <2658@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber) writes:
>There is nothing more annoying than to be able to use only part of a
>language because that is all the professor thought was important.

What about having the compiler complain about something obscure or advanced
that you won't learn about for ages, just because you made a simple
mistake in writing your rpogram and you are using a system that is way
too powerful for the basic task of learning to program?

Dave Berry, Laboratory for Foundations      db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
    of Computer Science, Edinburgh Uni.	    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!db

   "Another hope, another dream, another truth, installed by the machine."