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From: garys@cs.tamu.edu (Gary Wayne "Batman" Smith)
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Subject: Re: Free Optimizing Ada Compiler
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In article <9105091625.AA11977@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> koehnema@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Harry Koehnemann) writes:
>In article <1991May9.080740.6534@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
>It's not just that, it's also resources.  It been discussed here to put
>Ada as the beginning language, but what are the consequences of doing
>so.  A university can get a site license for pretty cheap.  However,
>compile 15 C programs concurrently and then 15 Ada versions for
>equivalent programs and you'll see the magnitude of the problem.
>
>Harry Koehnemann
>koehnema@enuxha.eas.asu.edu

Here at A&M we teach Pascal as a beginning language.  We use Turbo
Pascal on about 100 PCs.  What I personally would like to see is some
sort of Turbo Ada.  That way we could use Ada as a beginning language
without bogging down our Unix boxes.

Just my thoughts.  I'm just a graduate assistant and can't in any
way speak for the department, although I did teach the Ada class this
Spring and beginning Pascal last Fall. 

- gary