Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course?

[Hyman Rosen <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>]

On Nov 12, 10:53 am, John McCormick <mccorm...@cs.uni.edu> wrote:
> Those students who have a strong dislike for software engineering
> principles are the least likely to appreciate Ada.

It would be interesting if you could get those students to post some
comments here. A cynic might be inclined to respond to you with the
claim that you have a strong dislike for students who dislike Ada, and
so accuse them of having a strong dislike for software engineering.
Perhaps they have reasonable arguments to back their dislike.

Ada's type safety, modules, and visibilty rules are not all that
different
from those in languages like C++ or Java. Sure, it may be the case
that
Ada's way is better or safer (not knowing Ada well, I can't say for
sure)
but any modern programmer has to deal with getting code to be typesafe
and
with visibility rules of the language. So it cannot be that students
are
rejecting Ada just because other languages let them do what they want
willy-nilly.