Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu!grichard From: grichard@cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Learning Ada Message-ID: <59282@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 31 Aug 89 04:40:21 GMT References: <283@castle.ed.ac.uk> <6354@hubcap.clemson.edu> Reply-To: Golden Richard Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 17 In article <6354@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes: > Students should have little trouble with this as they write their > "rpogram", since Ada has very few reserved words. It only becomes > a problem in languages like COBOL, whose reserved words number well > over 200... I agree. COBOL compilers tend to be incredibly stupid, too. Accidentally using a reserved word as an identifier can lead to errors like "missing period" being flagged scores of lines from the actual trangression. -=- Golden Richard III OSU Department of Computer and Information Science grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu "I'm absolutely positive! ...or not."