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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities?
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:17:31 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:58:01 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a �crit:
>> True, but I am uncertain what is better to Ada, being taught to many
>> students or being used by a lesser number but for some practical work.
> Depends on what will go in the future: will they become decisioners ? Will  
> they keep some good memories from what they learned about Ada ?

No, I mean that things being taught are often ignored or hated by students.
Practical work leaves a deeper imprint. In general I am a bit sceptical
about teaching programming languages. Programming is not a science and
languages are even less than science. They'd better learn fundamental
things, e.g. math.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de