Re: How should DoD further Ada education?

[orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)]

In article <0D010010.mqixud@brain.UUCP> chuck@brain.UUCP writes:
>
>In article <2289@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil>, 
>schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) writes:
>> 
>> 3.  How do we expand the number of Ada-literate people coming out of the
>> universities?
>> 
>> 
>Simple, stop teaching Pascal as a first language and use Ada. I can' believe
>how many university curricula still rely on Pascal as a teaching language.
>Is this because the professors themselves aren't Ada-literate? Maybe this
>is where the first thrust should be...

When I taught at the University of Georgia (Athens), the first language course 
was taught on 8088 machines with 640K of memory and 2-360K floppies. 
The students were required to purchase their OWN copy of Turbo Pascal.

I know of no Ada compiler that is viable in such an environment.

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