User: gigabyteme

Re:Programmer not langauge.

On: Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada

If I could type 90 wpm and never make a mistake, I'd be using Ada or Fortran today.

Oh please. Once upon a time I used Ada as my primary language for several years and I simply don't understand all these "Ada is too verbose", or "Ada is too strictly typed for beginners to learn" type of comments. People making these comments have never used Ada. Ada code can be verbose and hard to read just like any other language, but most of the time good Ada code is concise and readable to the point where it's almost poetry and reads like natural language. Anyone can easily program in Ada as long as they understand data types. It is possible to code 1000s of new lines between compiles and have it compile perfectly on the first shot. I've done it and I'm definately not a "superstar programmer".