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Ada was the language our University decided to teach for BSc Computer Science. Once you learn to code in Ada - every other language looks like a death trap. To
by voycey 8y ago
Ada was the language our University decided to teach for BSc Computer Science.
Once you learn to code in Ada - every other language looks like a death trap. To say it is unforgiving is and understatement. The huge benefit of this is that you learn to do things "The Right Way TM" (because that is literally the only way Ada would allow you to do something - by the book GoF style)
Anyway fast forward to graduation at a time when PHP was ruling the web - imagine going into a job and saying "Well I can do that with a CGI-Bin I will write in Ada", I literally got laughed out of the room.
TLDR - Great language for airplanes / real time systems - but maybe uni should have taught us something to help us get a real world job (not at Boeing) as our main language!
- brmgb 8y ago> because that is literally the only way Ada would allow you to do something - by the book GoF style Ada is a very flexible language and the first versions didn't even support OOP so I will hasard that there was more than one way to do what you wanted. It's actually often used like C but with a proper type system. Going from Ada to early PHP seems like an easy step to me. Going from PHP to Ada on the other hand would require learning quite lot of new concepts so it doesn't sound like a terrible choice for a first language to me.
- voycey 8y agoI think the last version we used was Ada95. I definitely wasn't saying it was a terrible first language to learn with - job prospects however - not so good! And yes the transition from Ada to PHP was easy - agree that the other way around would be painful - it's very difficult to un-learn something!