From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-07 18:12:35 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!wvnvms!un033144 From: un033144@wvnvms.wvnet.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada as intro language Message-ID: <1994Dec7.151830.12332@wvnvms> Date: 7 Dec 94 15:18:30 EST References: <1994Nov29.154220.27952@cognos.com> <3bidce$a83@borage.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing Date: 1994-12-07T15:18:30-05:00 List-Id: In article <3bidce$a83@borage.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Jules) writes: > Oh come off it, nobody teaches BASIC anymore, do they? > Oh, and how many of them are teaching Ada now? Quite a lot I believe. As > a large proportion of those graduates know Ada, doesn't it make sense to > use it? Well, I'm an undergraduate at West Virginia University, and Ada is the intro language that is taught here. As far as other schools that teach Ada as there intro language, I don't remember the exact number, but I think I heard that it's somewhere under 20.