Re: Retraining from C++ to Ada (was Two Ideas...)

[Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>]

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new catalogue due out in the next couple of weeks.

This book builds on initial work done for a web page at HBAP.

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From:   Larry Kilgallen[SMTP:kilgallen@EISNER.DECUS.ORG]
Sent:   Thursday, September 05, 1996 2:14 PM
To:     INFO-ADA@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
Subject:        Retraining from C++ to Ada (was Two Ideas...)

In article <96090416102641@psavax.pwfl.com>, "Marin David Condic, =
407.796.8997,
M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM> writes:

>     Now it's the C++ programmers having a hard time trying to write
>     "Ada++" Maybe someone needs to write a "Ada for C++ programmers"
>     book that does some reeducation?

That is definitely the way the game is played elsewhere in the
industry, and requires not only books but pricey seminars with
flyers delivered to everyone who gets any computer magazine, etc.

Get the "education" companies to feel that they can "sell" some
class seats for retraining programmers from C++ to Ada and they
will do all the advertising Ada ever needed.

Please lets have no backlash from CLA academics regarding Ada 95
being easy enough to be self-taught. Self-taught is a dangerous
approach because it fails to fill peoples brochure piles with
the word Ada !!!

Larry Kilgallen