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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: SunOS Clear Screen
Date: 1997/02/28
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In article <3315FE64.2FC3@bix.com>, Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com> writes:
>> Borland Pascal.  Folks who start in that realm don't see where
>> the Pascal ends and the Borland begins.
>> 
>> When one starts with a more academic approach to programming
>> languages, and advances to software engineering approaches,

>  A recent article (I forget where) showed a rather large (42% ?)
> decrease over the last 5 years or so in CS BS degrees.  Does that mean
> that the vast majority of current/future programmers are coming from the
> 'non-acedmenic' realm, and thus quite reasonably ask this kind of
> question?

I think that statistic will have less effect regarding new Ada
programmers than the availability of compilers which are inexpensive
ranging down to free.

Not only is an Ada compiler cheaper than Borland, but the organization
of the newsgroups is simpler :-).

Larry Kilgallen