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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ed Falis Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada Date: 1996/10/30 Message-ID: <3277529B.5F0C@thomsoft.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193574401 sender: news@thomsoft.com references: <552tcg$opv@explorer.csc.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Thomson Software Products mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1Gold (Win95; I) Date: 1996-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I had an interesting discussion with the HS computer teacher at my son's school about the AP exam. He'd been using Pascal for the programming classes, but felt under some pressure to make sure that those kids who wanted to take the AP exam would be prepared. The school was seriously considering C++ to replace Pascal. Although I'd have preferred to recommend Ada (and in fact have passed along a copy of ObjectAda), I suggested he use java for several reasons: B. Meyer's recommendations for how to teach programming (start as a client of packages), relative simplicity of java (to C++), ease of producing something through use of the java environment packages, the "cool" factor, and sufficient syntactic (and semantic) similarity to C++ to give kids who want to take the AP exam a sound platform for learning C++. He's implemented this, and it's working very well so far. Maybe once I've piqued his curiosity with ObjectAda, he'll want to introduce Ada into the mix as well. -- Ed Falis Thomson Software Products