From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: Ada as a First Language
Date: 1997/07/06
Date: 1997-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33C06012.2DB1@dynamite.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kMVngCANO5uzYwoa@clanchy.demon.co.uk
RC wrote:
>
> Does any one have any opinions on whether Ada should be introduced as a
> first programming language?
The Australian Defence Force Academy uses Ada-95 as it's first language.
It teaches rather well many important concepts that are less well
approximated in the more popular and kludgy commercial languages such as
C++.
Being descended from Pascal, a teaching language, it does rather well.
The only possible better language from a teaching viewpoint I am aware
of would be BLUE, from the University of Sydney.
BLUE does, however, have its own disadvantages. It's great for teaching,
but not-so-good for any practical purpose.
BTW I teach Ada-95 for CS1 at ADFA.
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1997-07-03 0:00 Ada as a First Language RC
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Alan Brain [this message]
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-16 0:00 ` Eric James DeArment
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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2009-03-22 2:26 Ada as a first language Chris
2009-03-22 10:36 ` mockturtle
2009-03-22 14:44 ` Brian Drummond
2009-03-23 11:03 ` Peter C. Chapin
2009-03-23 13:29 ` Brian Drummond
2009-03-25 10:51 ` Peter C. Chapin
2009-03-23 16:59 ` rolf.ebert_nospam_
2009-03-24 19:22 ` Tim Rowe
2009-04-04 1:42 ` Brian Gaffney
2009-04-07 9:50 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2009-03-22 15:21 ` Gary Scott
2009-03-23 8:28 ` Brian
2009-03-23 9:05 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-03-23 22:02 ` Brian
2009-03-24 1:41 ` Gautier
2009-03-24 5:56 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-03-24 22:30 ` Brian
2009-03-25 9:41 ` rmoldskr+usenet
2009-03-25 22:27 ` Brian
2009-03-25 17:58 ` John McCormick
2009-03-25 23:20 ` Brian
2009-03-23 12:08 ` Chris
2009-03-25 21:10 ` John McCormick
2009-04-11 16:40 ` Mike Silva
2009-03-23 23:05 ` jpwoodruff
2009-03-25 0:16 ` Martin
2009-03-25 15:54 ` John McCormick
1992-12-29 15:40 Ada as a First Language agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!vx9000.weber.edu!
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