A lost sole found ?

A lost sole found ?

[Steve Jones - JON]

Found some articles in another newsgroup that mentioned Ada
and a plea for some help from :

Dr. Joseph C. Coughlan wrote:
> 

> I assigned two sections of a 200 level CS/Earth Science class
> two find 2 web pages on 3 different comptuer lanagues.
> I was surprised to see 0 references to ADA.  30 students
> total, 3 lanagues each and 2 web pages per langauge.
> Amazing.
> 
> What kept me off of ADA was the cost and the relatively
> poor tool set.  I'm doing a project rewrite and would gladly
> consider ADA *if* you know of any worthwihile versions
> ported to OS/2, the MacOS and SGI IRIX.
> 
> It's academic related programming so I'm not restricted to
> using ADA, in fact I know of noone locally doing ADA
> development.  I see LISP, C, C++, FORTRAN and PASCAL.
> 
> I'd welcome and WEB pages and pointers to ADA software.
> I am aware that a ADA CD-ROM is out althought I have
> not seen it.
> 
> -- Dr. Joseph C. Coughlan, jcoughlan@gaia.arc.nasa.gov
Any one help someone who can see FORTRAN as a viable language ?

Steve Jones