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From: John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>
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On Mar 10, 12:33=A0pm, "Martin Krischik"
<krisc...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Interesting - where the studens alowed to choose the language or was it =
=A0
> forced upon them?

Forced  :)  Christoph pointed out an older article that is easy to
access.  We used C the first 7 years leading to a very frustrated
professor.  Even when I gave them over 50% of the C code, they still
failed.  Two attempts were made by Ada graduates to write the systems
in C++ and Real-Time Java.  Neither succeeded.

I have a video of the laboratory at http://www.cs.uni.edu/~mccormic/RealTim=
e/
You can also see a user's manual that describes the system the
students implement.

John