Outch!! ADA is syntactically complex, and has never gained much acceptance in the software community. I'd really suggest Java. Its syntactically very close to C, it is interpretive (although I'm not sure I've ever really seen a read-eval-print sort of interpreter for it), and it is very very powerful. It is free, modern, object oriented, continually being updated and improved, and you can even do GUI stuff which is accessible. OK, so Freedom Scientific has a bit of work to do in this area, but to get started, its pretty good. There is an excellent book called "Thinking in Java", by Bruce Eckel available for free, and published in HTML on the web at http://www.mindview.net in the books section. There is also a very good book called "Thinking in C++ on the same site". I have read these books and they are excellent, and very accessible. Hope this info helps. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: <jwantz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: 11 March, 2002 11:38 AM Subject: Re: free programming language Hi Pete, I don't know Ada myself, but I've seen Ada listings and articles in programming magazines like Dr. Dobb's Journal. It seems syntactically complex, much more so than say C++. Jim On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Pete wrote: > > What about ADA as a starting point for learning programming? > Pete > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
