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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)
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Subject: Re: Learning Ada
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Date: 31 Aug 89 01:24:38 GMT
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From article <283@castle.ed.ac.uk>, by db@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry):
> 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 

    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... 


    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu