Re: A very successful Ada marketing disaster in Boston

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In article <HARRYR.93Sep14093821@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com> harryr@fsi-ssd.csg.ss
d.fsi.com (Harry Rockefeller) writes:
>
>I also spoke with a professor at Oklahoma State Univ.  He said that
>the higher ups are pressuring him to drop the Ada requirement for
>computer science students.  It appears some in authority feel students
>are at a disadvantage if their C experience is not up to their peers
>in graduate school.
>

A little bit of news here (and this may be of particular interest to
Mike Feldman): The University of Houston at Clear Lake, which has
been known for it's commitment to Ada, apparently recently "voted"
to drop Ada from the required curriculum.  In its place will be
a requirement to learn Object-Oriented programming using C++.

UHCL, like other universities, is not without political infighting.
Seems the ones with the most political pull are rooting for C++.
(I have some personal insight to this one, and would be more then
glad to point fingers at a certain major contractor here in this
area that appears to be exerting an unusual amount of influence
(read that: dollars) to have Ada dropped.  Looks like they won.
However, I'll avoid accusations of slandering by not publicly
posting <>'s name here :-)

Another one bites the dust, gentleman.

dgw

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